 Specific Heat. The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the heat required to raise the temperature of unit weight of the substance 1 deg.  Household Physics - Page 25by Claude H. Brechner - 1919 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas O'Conor Sloane - Electrical engineering - 1891 - 166 pages
..." ampere per day" or "ampere." The same applies to watts and to power units such as "horse-power." SPECIFIC HEAT. The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of its capacity for heat to that of an equal quantity of water. It almost invariably is referred to equal... | |
 | Alfred Payson Gage - Physics - 1902 - 394 pages
...is much less subject to extremes of temperature than places that are remote from water fronts. 107. Specific Heat. — The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of a given mass of the substance 1 degree to the... | |
 | Joseph Albertus Culler - Physics - 1906 - 440 pages
...glass with which they are covered being transparent to light waves and athermanous to heat waves. 197. Specific Heat. The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the quantity of heat needed to raise its temperature one degree to Fio. 136. the amount needed to raise... | |
 | Thomas O'Conor Sloane - Electricity - 1909 - 188 pages
...hour," "ampere per day" or "ampere." The same applies to watta and to power units such as "horse-power." SPECIFIC HEAT. The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of its capacity for heat to that of an equal quantity of water. It almost invariably is referred to equal... | |
 | Frederick Russell Gorton - Physics - 1910 - 536 pages
...substances require different quantities of heat to produce equal changes of temperature, ie they differ in specific heat. The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of a certain mass of it 1° C. to the quantity required... | |
 | A. Herring-Shaw - 1910 - 288 pages
...of heat required to raise 1 Ib. of water 1° F. This number is called the "specific heat" of copper. The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the heat required to raise its temperature through 1° to the heat required to raise the temperature of an equal... | |
 | Robert Wallace Stewart - Light - 1910 - 264 pages
...when the quantity of heat required to raise the body or the apparatus through one degree is meant. 39. Specific Heat. — The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of its thermal capacity to the thermal capacity of water. The thermal capacity of water is, however, the... | |
 | Mines and mineral resources - 1915 - 1010 pages
...during evaporation. This quantity varies slightly with the temperature at which evaporation takes place. The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the heat required to raise the temperature of a certain weight of the substance 1 degree to that required to... | |
 | Lionel Simeon Marks - Mechanical engineering - 1916 - 1922 pages
...Btu (1 Btu •- 0.252 kilogram calorie). This is the "warmeenbeit" (WE) mentioned in German texts. * Specific Heat. The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the heat required to raise the temperature of unit weight of the substance 1 deg. to the heat required to raise... | |
 | Mechanical engineering - 1916 - 1826 pages
...3.968 Btu (1 Btu - 0.252 kilogram calorie). This is the "warmeeinheit" (WE) mentioned in German texts. Specific Heat. The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the heat required to raise the temperature of unit weight of the substance 1 deg. to the heat required to raise... | |
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