 The Specific Heat of a body is the ratio of the quantity of heat required to raise that body one degree to the quantity required to raise an equal weight of water one degree.  A short manual of heat - Page 80by Alexander Irving - 1875Full view - About this book
 | James Clerk Maxwell - 1871 - 344 pages
...which case we refer to unit of mass of the substance. DEFINITION OF SPECIFIC HEAT. The Specific Heat of a body is the ratio of the quantity of heat required...required to raise an equal weight of water one degree. The specific heat therefore is a ratio of two quantities of the same kind, and is expressed by the... | |
 | Raphael Meldola - 1873 - 200 pages
...of the water existing on the globe, and this is consequently its most abundant 1 " The specific heat of a body is the ratio of the quantity of heat required...quantity required to raise an equal weight of water one degree."—J. Clerk Maxwell. The remarks in the last foot.note are equally applicable here. 2 G. hudor,... | |
 | Richard Wormell - 1877 - 192 pages
...regarded as equal. The specific heat of a body for which this holds good may, therefore, be defined as the ratio of the quantity of heat required to raise that body through a small range of temperature — as, for instance, 1° — to the quantity required to raise... | |
 | 1878 - 616 pages
...of pure liquid water, at its temperature of greatest density, (3° 94 C.). Def. The Specific, Heat of a body, is the ratio of the quantity of heat required...required to raise an equal weight of water one degree. It has been proven for permanent gases, that, 1. The specific heat is constant for any given gas, and... | |
 | Robert Zahner - 1878 - 148 pages
...of pure liquid water, at its temperature of greatest density, (3°.94 C.). Def. The Specific, Heat of a body, is the ratio of the quantity of heat required...required to raise an equal weight of water one degree. It has been proven for permanent gases, that, 1. The specific heat is constant for any given gas, and... | |
 | William Culley Bergen - 1880 - 474 pages
...the number of units of heat required to raise that body one degree in temperature. THE SPECIFIC HEAT OF A BODY is the ratio of the quantity of heat required...required to raise an equal weight of water one degree. SENSIRLE HEAT is heat employed in producing elevation of temperature ; hence it affects the thermometer.... | |
 | Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1882 - 238 pages
...the figures given express the ratios of the quantities of heat required to raise the bodies specified one degree to the quantity required to raise an equal weight of water one degree. XXVIII. LATENT HEAT. 1083. We must now pass on to other properties of water involving amounts of heat.... | |
 | Sir George Charles Vincent Holmes - 1888 - 564 pages
...by one degree with unity. The ratio of the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of a. body one degree, to the quantity required to raise an equal weight of water one degree, is called the Specific Heat of the body. Thus, if it take half the quantity of heat to raise one pound... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - 1889 - 532 pages
...of through 32 times as many degrees as it would 1 Ib. of jr. Specific Heat.* — The specific heat of a body is the ratio of the quantity of heat required to raise that body one degree, to the quantify required to raise an equal weight of water one degree in tem2>erature. Note. — The specific... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1891 - 216 pages
...the number of units of heat required to raise that body one degree of temperature. The Specific Heat of a body is the ratio of the quantity of heat required...required to raise an equal weight of water one degree. Latent Heat is the quantity of heat which must be communicated to a body in a given state in order... | |
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