Heat capacity
![Molecules undergo many characteristic internal vibrations. Potential energy stored in these internal degrees of freedom contributes to a sample’s energy content,
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but not to its temperature. More internal degrees of freedom tend to increase a substance's specific heat capacity, so long as temperatures are high enough to overcome quantum effects.](/uploads/202501/27/Thermally_Agitated_Molecule1744.gif)



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 LMTΘ. Specific heat is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of mass by 1 kelvin
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