What is heat capacity?

  • A
    The amount of heat required to increase the temperature of $1 \ g$ of a substance by $1 \ K$.
  • B
    The amount of heat required to increase the temperature of a given quantity of a substance by $1 \ K$.
  • C
    The amount of heat required to increase the temperature of $1 \ mole$ of a substance by $1 \ K$.
  • D
    The total energy of a system at constant pressure.

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The energy required to increase the temperature of $180 \ g$ of liquid water from $10^{\circ} C$ to $15^{\circ} C$ is $3765 \ J$. What is $C_{p}$ of water in $J \ mol^{-1} \ K^{-1}$ ? $(H_2O = 18 \ u)$

Which graph represents the relationship between heat capacity at constant pressure $(C_p)$ and temperature $(T)$ for a monatomic ideal gas?

Fill in the blanks:
$(i)$ The unit of heat capacity is ......... .
$(ii)$ Heat capacity is a ......... property of matter.
$(iii)$ The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of $1 \ mol$ of a substance by $1^{\circ} C$ is called ......... .

Explain Heat Capacity.

Molar heat capacity $(C_p)$ of water at constant pressure is $75 \ J \ K^{-1} \ mol^{-1}$. The increase in temperature (in $K$) of $100 \ g$ of water when $1 \ kJ$ of heat is supplied to it is

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