Specific heat capacity and heat capacity are different but related concepts. Specific heat capacity is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1kg of a substance by 1K, while heat capacity does not consider mass and is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a substance by 1K. Specific heat capacity includes mass in its calculation and has a consistent, fixed value for a particular substance, while heat capacity can vary for a substance and have the same value for different substances.