Heat capacity

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From the first law of thermodynamics we have

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the heat capacity is given by

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At constant volume

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where U is the internal energy, T is the temperature, and V is the volume.

At constant pressure

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C_p = \left.\frac{\delta Q}{\partial T} \right\vert_p = \left. \frac{\partial U}{\partial T} \right\vert_p + p \left.\frac{\partial V}{\partial T} \right\vert_p}

where p is the pressure.