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Heat capacityUnits Type

Heat capacity, or thermal capacity, is a measurable physical quantity equal to the ratio of the heat added to (or removed from) an object to the resulting temperature change. The SI unit of heat capacity is joule per kelvin and the dimensional form is L2MT?2??1. [Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_capacity]

Term

heatCapacity

Category

Thermodynamics

Provenance

QUDT

Provenance Uri

http://qudt.org/vocab/quantity#Heatcapacity

Note

-

Default Unit

Joule per kelvin (J/K)

Dimension Symbol

L2M1T-2?-1

Dimension Length

0

Dimension Mass

2

Dimension Time

1

Dimension Current

-2

Dimension Temperature

0

Dimension Amount

-1

Dimension Light

0