Not all substances heat up and cool down at the same rate. A substance's resistance to temperature change is described by its specific heat capacity, or specific heat for short. For example, the specific heat of iron is 0.46 J/g °C. That means it takes 0.46 joules of heat energy to increase the temperature of a gram of iron by one degree Celsius.

Lab reagent, hypothesis test. a reference solution used as a lab reagent is purported to have a concentration of 5 mg/dl. six samples are taken from this solution and the following concentrations are recorded: (5.32, 4.88, 5.10, 4.73, 5.15, 4.75) mg/dl. these six measurements are assumed to be an srs of all possible measurements from solution. they are also assumed to have a standard deviation of 0.2, a normal distributin, and a mean concentration equal to the true concentration of the solution. carry out a significance test to determine whether these six measurements provide reliable evidence that the true concentration of the solution is actually not 5 mg/dl.