Why is heat capacity a path function and not a state function where as temperature is a state function.

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2023-03-22

Why is heat capacity a path function and not a state function where as temperature is a state function.

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Because it depends on the system's path, such how heat naturally travels in a single direction from high to low temperatures, all types of heat have broad properties and path functions. The amount of heat needed to increase a substance's temperature by one degree per gram is its specific heat capacity. Until a transition state (melting, evaporating, etc.) is reached, a substance's specific heat capacity remains constant for that substance at that physical state.

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