Q: What is a measure of how much energy is needed to change the temperature of a substance?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

where the mass, specific heat, and change in temperature are multiplied together. Specific heat is a measure of how much energy is needed to change the temperature of a substance; the larger the specific heat, the more energy is needed to change the temperature. The units for specific heat are depending on what the unit of ΔTis. You may note a departure from the insistence that temperature be expressed in Kelvin. That is because a change in temperature has the same value whether the temperatures are expressed in degrees Celsius or kelvins.

 Choices:

- thermal potential

- specific gravity

- momentum

- specific heat


A:
specific heat