Applications of Specific Heat Capacity

[sodaMay]

I have to write about the applications/uses of specific heat capacity.
I know what SHC is- the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1kg of substance by 1°C/ 1K.
But I have no idea how that can be applied anywhere or anything..
I've searched the entire internet for the uses/applications of SHC but I haven't found anything useful.. Help?

 

[Hawknc]

Well, for starters, it can be used to work out the energy required to heat up a specific substance. ;) It's used very widely in thermodynamics and heat transfer to relate energy to temperature. My lunch break's over so I can't go into more detail now, but thermodynamics textbooks go into a fair bit of detail in most cases about it.

 

[Farsight]

soda: try searching on "use of specific heat".

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q="use+of+specific+heat"&meta=

 

[blaziken's_charizard]

Sorry for bumping, but I would like to ask the same question... how can shc be applied?