The Importance of Heat Capacity

heat capacity is important because it tells us a lot about how energy works from flowing from one object to another. The more the high the heat capacity of the object the more energy we need to increase its temperature by a given amount. For example if I take a hot metal object and place it in a bucket of water the metal object is you know could be hundreds of degrees whereas the bucket of water could be you know 30 degrees Celsius. So the metalobject is much much hotter than the water but yet because metal has a lower specific heat than water and also because there is much less metal than water for these two reasons the heatcapacity of the metal is actually much lower than that of the water.