 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
 | Charles Haynes Hughes - Naval architecture - 1917 - 774 pages
...ftanit.flrv PAfr;irnratinTi nnH TPA M»irinir .T .T SPECIFIC HEAT AND LATENT HEAT op VARIOUS FOOD PRODUCTS The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the heat required to raise tbe temperature of a certain weight of the substance one degree Fahrenheit, to that... | |
 | Frank Ward Sterling - Marine engineering - 1920 - 1522 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... | |
 | George A. Hool, Nathan C. Johnson - Building - 1920 - 676 pages
...of heat which is required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. 2. Specific Heat. — The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the number of Btu required to raise the temperature of 1 Ib. of the substance 1 deg. F., to that required... | |
 | John Case - Engines - 1922 - 154 pages
...1400 ft.-lbs. 1 Ft.-lb. = 1/1400 Th. Unit.* Sometimes this unit of heat is called a pound-calorie. 7. The Specific Heat of a substance is the ratio of the heat required to raise a mass of the substance through a certain temperature rise to that required to raise... | |
 | Robert Thomas Haslam, Robert Price Russell - Combustion - 1926 - 838 pages
...experimentally, so that the gross heating value is almost invariably reported and used in practice. Specific Heat. — The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the heat required to raise 1 Ib. of the material in question 1°F. to the heat required to raise 1 Ib. of water... | |
 | American Gas Association. Industrial Gas Section - 1926 - 92 pages
...1.000 .252 Btu Lb. ° F. 3.9683 1.0000 Calorie Per Liter 1.000 .0089 Btu Per Cu. Ft. 112.37 1.000 4' Specific Heat The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the quantity of heat required to raise 1 Ib. of that substance 1° F., to the quantity required to raise... | |
 | American Gas Association. Industrial Gas Section - 1926 - 136 pages
...amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water from 32° F. to 212° F. 7. Specific Heat: The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the quantity of heat required to raise one pound of that substance, 1° F., to the quantity required to... | |
 | Charles de Forest Chandler, Walter Stuart Diehl - Airships - 1926 - 282 pages
...the temperature of 1 kg. of water from °C. to 100°C. 1 kg-cal. = 3.968 B. tu 1 B. tu= 0.252 kg-cal. The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of the heat required to raise the temperature of a unit weight of the substance 1°, to the heat required to raise... | |
 | Bill Fry - Technology & Engineering - 1999 - 47 pages
...are low on the decimal side, such as .00003 in. (0.76 |im), and there is the short cut of 3 x 10- 5 . SPECIFIC HEAT The specific heat of a substance is the ratio of its thermal capacity to that of water at 33° F (0.5° C). VOLUME RESISTIVITY Volume resistivity is... | |
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