Water is said to have a high specific heat capacity which allows it to maintain the temperature of anything that is placed in it when there are slight changes in the temperature of the surroundings.

Question

Can some explain if this is true or false & why

Answer 1

Hello,

to understand your question we need to first answer/understand what specific heat is. Specific heat is the amount of energy/heat required to change (usually raise) the temperature of a given substance. It is true that water has a high specific heat (think about how the temperature usually drops a little while it is raining) and therefore requires large amount of energy to change its temperature.

If an object is placed inside a body of water (and the object is not a drastically different temperature than the water) then the water IS likely to maintain the temperature if there are minimal changes to the environment (again - takes quite a lot of energy to change the temperature of water, especially a large body of water).

Hope that helps - let me know if you need further help!