Boiling water is changing into steam. The specific heat of boiling water is

Boiling water is changing into steam. The specific heat of boiling water is
  1. zero
  2. One
  3. Infinity
  4. less than one

Solution

Specific heat of any substance is the amount of heat transfer Q required to cause a unit rise in temperature T of a unit mass of that substance of mass m.

s=QmT

When boiling water changes into steam there is latent heat involved cause its a phase change process, during the phase change process there is no temperature change, therefore, T=0

Thus, the specific heat of boiling water undergoing through phase change is  s=QmT=Qm×0=

Asked in: AP EAMCET 2021 (20 Aug Shift 1)

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