Sensible heat is used in contrast of latent heat. It is the heat exchanged by a system in which the exchange of heat of the system. Specific heat is an important physical property of matter. The specific heat is the amount of heat per unit mass required to raise the temperature by one degree Celsius. 

To understand the concept of latent heat, we must first review phase changes. Phase changes refer to a change in matter from one state to another without changing its chemical properties.