Heat Capacity: Did you know that earlier the unit of heat was calorie? One calorie was defined to be the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1g of water by 1 C. Read the article to ...

Jonny Nelson explains how changes in a material’s temperature or state of matter are caused by changes to internal energy. The energy required by different materials depends on their heat capacity and ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Living by the coast, you may notice that vegetation and roadways cool down and heat up more quickly than our local bodies of water. Let’s dive into the science behind “specific heat” ...