Specific Heat Capacity Units Converter

Coversion factor: 1 J/kg·K = 0.001 J/g·°C

Additional information

Specific heat capacity is a physical property of a substance that describes the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of the substance by one degree. In other words, it is the measure of how much heat energy a material can absorb or release per unit mass for a given temperature change.

Mathematically, specific heat capacity is expressed as:

c = \frac{Q}{m \times Δ T}

Where:

c is the specific heat capacity
Q is the amount of heat energy absorbed or released
m is the mass
ΔT is the change in temperature

The standard unit for specific heat capacity in the International System of Units (SI) is joules per kilogram per kelvin (J/kg·K).

Specific Heat Capacity Conversion Factors

	J/kg·K	J/kg·°C	J/g·°C	kJ/kg·K	kJ/kg·°C	cal [IT]/g·°C	cal [IT]/g·°F	cal [th]/g·°C	cal [th]/g·°F	kcal [IT]/kg·K	kcal [IT]/kg·°C	kcal [th]/kg·K	kcal [th]/kg·°C	BTU [IT]/lb·°C	BTU [IT]/lb·°F	BTU [IT]/lb·°R	BTU [th]/lb·°C	BTU [th]/lb·°F	BTU [th]/lb·°R	CHU/lb·°C
1 J/kg·K	1	1	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.0002388459	0.0001326922	0.0002390057	0.000132781	0.0002388459	0.0002388459	0.0002390057	0.0002390057	0.0004299226	0.0002388459	0.0002388459	0.0004302104	0.0002390057	0.0002390057	0.0002388459
1 J/kg·°C	1	1	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.0002388459	0.0001326922	0.0002390057	0.000132781	0.0002388459	0.0002388459	0.0002390057	0.0002390057	0.0004299226	0.0002388459	0.0002388459	0.0004302104	0.0002390057	0.0002390057	0.0002388459
1 J/g·°C	1000	1000	1	1	1	0.2388458966	0.1326921648	0.2390057361	0.1327809645	0.2388458966	0.2388458966	0.2390057361	0.2390057361	0.4299226139	0.2388458966	0.2388458966	0.430210433	0.2390057361	0.2390057361	0.2388458966
1 kJ/kg·K	1000	1000	1	1	1	0.2388458966	0.1326921648	0.2390057361	0.1327809645	0.2388458966	0.2388458966	0.2390057361	0.2390057361	0.4299226139	0.2388458966	0.2388458966	0.430210433	0.2390057361	0.2390057361	0.2388458966
1 kJ/kg·°C	1000	1000	1	1	1	0.2388458966	0.1326921648	0.2390057361	0.1327809645	0.2388458966	0.2388458966	0.2390057361	0.2390057361	0.4299226139	0.2388458966	0.2388458966	0.430210433	0.2390057361	0.2390057361	0.2388458966
1 cal [IT]/g·°C	4186.8	4186.8	4.1868	4.1868	4.1868	1	0.5555555556	1.0006692161	0.5559273423	1	1	1.0006692161	1.0006692161	1.8	1	1	1.8012050408	1.0006692161	1.0006692161	1
1 cal [IT]/g·°F	7536.24	7536.24	7.53624	7.53624	7.53624	1.8	1	1.8012045889	1.0006692161	1.8	1.8	1.8012045889	1.8012045889	3.24	1.8	1.8	3.2421690734	1.8012045889	1.8012045889	1.8
1 cal [th]/g·°C	4184	4184	4.184	4.184	4.184	0.9993312315	0.5551840175	1	0.5555555556	0.9993312315	0.9993312315	1	1	1.7987962167	0.9993312315	0.9993312315	1.8000004515	1	1	0.9993312315
1 cal [th]/g·°F	7531.2	7531.2	7.5312	7.5312	7.5312	1.7987962167	0.9993312315	1.8	1	1.7987962167	1.7987962167	1.8	1.8	3.23783319	1.7987962167	1.7987962167	3.2400008128	1.8	1.8	1.7987962167
1 kcal [IT]/kg·K	4186.8	4186.8	4.1868	4.1868	4.1868	1	0.5555555556	1.0006692161	0.5559273423	1	1	1.0006692161	1.0006692161	1.8	1	1	1.8012050408	1.0006692161	1.0006692161	1
1 kcal [IT]/kg·°C	4186.8	4186.8	4.1868	4.1868	4.1868	1	0.5555555556	1.0006692161	0.5559273423	1	1	1.0006692161	1.0006692161	1.8	1	1	1.8012050408	1.0006692161	1.0006692161	1
1 kcal [th]/kg·K	4184	4184	4.184	4.184	4.184	0.9993312315	0.5551840175	1	0.5555555556	0.9993312315	0.9993312315	1	1	1.7987962167	0.9993312315	0.9993312315	1.8000004515	1	1	0.9993312315
1 kcal [th]/kg·°C	4184	4184	4.184	4.184	4.184	0.9993312315	0.5551840175	1	0.5555555556	0.9993312315	0.9993312315	1	1	1.7987962167	0.9993312315	0.9993312315	1.8000004515	1	1	0.9993312315
1 BTU [IT]/lb·°C	2326	2326	2.326	2.326	2.326	0.5555555556	0.3086419753	0.5559273423	0.3088485235	0.5555555556	0.5555555556	0.5559273423	0.5559273423	1	0.5555555556	0.5555555556	1.0006694671	0.5559273423	0.5559273423	0.5555555556
1 BTU [IT]/lb·°F	4186.8	4186.8	4.1868	4.1868	4.1868	1	0.5555555556	1.0006692161	0.5559273423	1	1	1.0006692161	1.0006692161	1.8	1	1	1.8012050408	1.0006692161	1.0006692161	1
1 BTU [IT]/lb·°R	4186.8	4186.8	4.1868	4.1868	4.1868	1	0.5555555556	1.0006692161	0.5559273423	1	1	1.0006692161	1.0006692161	1.8	1	1	1.8012050408	1.0006692161	1.0006692161	1
1 BTU [th]/lb·°C	2324.4438613	2324.4438613	2.3244438613	2.3244438613	2.3244438613	0.5551838782	0.3084354879	0.5555554162	0.3086418979	0.5551838782	0.5551838782	0.5555554162	0.5555554162	0.9993309808	0.5551838782	0.5551838782	1	0.5555554162	0.5555554162	0.5551838782
1 BTU [th]/lb·°F	4184	4184	4.184	4.184	4.184	0.9993312315	0.5551840175	1	0.5555555556	0.9993312315	0.9993312315	1	1	1.7987962167	0.9993312315	0.9993312315	1.8000004515	1	1	0.9993312315
1 BTU [th]/lb·°R	4184	4184	4.184	4.184	4.184	0.9993312315	0.5551840175	1	0.5555555556	0.9993312315	0.9993312315	1	1	1.7987962167	0.9993312315	0.9993312315	1.8000004515	1	1	0.9993312315
1 CHU/lb·°C	4186.8	4186.8	4.1868	4.1868	4.1868	1	0.5555555556	1.0006692161	0.5559273423	1	1	1.0006692161	1.0006692161	1.8	1	1	1.8012050408	1.0006692161	1.0006692161	1

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References: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). “Unit Conversion”. https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/metric-si/unit-conversion. Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM). “The International System of Units (SI)”. https://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units/. Wikipedia. “Specific heat capacity”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_heat_capacity.