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 | | If a quantity of heat d' Q is introduced quasistatically into a system by a process which, maintaining a quantity x constant, raises the temperature by d T, the quantity C x, defined by |
 | | The heat capacity per unit mass of the material is its specific heat. |
 | | where the integration is done along any quasistatic process which connects α to α 0, d 'Q being the heat absorbed by the system at temperature Τ in an infinitesimal element of the whole process. |
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