specific heat capacity
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Specific Heat Capacity (c): The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram (or 1 gram) of a substance by 1 Kelvin (or 1 degree Celsius). It's a property specific to the material.
Heat Capacity (C): The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of the entire object (in this case, 10 kg of copper) by 1 Kelvin (or 1 degree Celsius). It depends on both the material and the mass.
The question asks for the heat needed to raise the temperature of 10 kg of copper by 1 Kelvin.
Heat Capacity (C) for 10 kg of copper would be 10 times the specific heat capacity (c) of copper.
The question is essentially asking for the specific heat capacity of copper because it's asking about the heat needed to raise the temperature by 1K for a specific amount of mass.
Therefore, the correct answer is A, specific heat capacity.
It's a common mistake to confuse these two terms. The key difference is that specific heat capacity is per unit mass (usually 1 kg or 1 gram), while heat capacity is for the entire object.
For those that are just seeing this question now, please search on Google to confirm your answer before believing either myschool or the students contribution so you won't assume answers
Based on Google heat capacity doesn't have any involvement with mass therefore the formula Q=C∆T
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Accoding to the defiition, specific heat capacity is 1kg by 1k but specific heat is 10kg by 1k
Most of the comments here, have been all fun shades of hilarious.
The simple question above is to differentiate between heat capacity and specific heat capacity.
and the one thing that differentiate the duo. is "mass"
Hence, specific heat capacity is legit 
Heat capacity is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of the mass (above 1g)of a body by 1K while specific heat capacity is the amount of heat required to raise a unit mass (i.e 1g)of a body by 1k.Since its 10g that is being raised by 1k,therefore the answer is 'HEAT CAPACITY'. That's Right.
the correct answer is A. "specific heat capacity is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of a unit mass by 1K".
The unit mass here in this question is given as 10kg...
correct urselves.
