how much heat in joules is needed to raise the temperature of 1.0 L of water from 0 C to 100 C

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How is specific heat (or heat capacity) define?

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I might recommend sticking around after you answer a question. We like to interact with askers. 

Anyways, specific heat is defined as the amount of energy needed to raise one unit of mass one degree. (J/kg-K)

Therefore, is units of Joules are needed, observe that we can simply multiply the specific heat by the mass and the change in temperature. $$Q = m \cdot c \cdot \Delta T$$ where m is the mass in kg, c is the specific heat (4181.3 J/kg-K for water), and T is the change in temperature in Kelvins.