extensive properties depend on the quantity of the matter but intensive properties do not.explain whether the following are intensive or extensive:
mass, internal energy, pressure, heat capacity, density , mole fraction,specific heat,temperature, molarity.

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$Mass : Extensive Dividing in half a tank of air at a given T, P and mass yields two smalller tanks containing air, but the mass of the air in each new, smaller tank is half as it was initially in the one big tank . Internal energy : Extensive Dividing in half a tank of water at a given T, P with a given total internal energy yields two smalller tanks containing water at the same T and P, but the internal energy of the water in each new, smaller tank is half as it was initially in the one big tank . Pressure : Intensive The ratio of two extensive properties are also intensive Pressure = \frac{Force}{Area} = \frac{Extensive}{Extensive} = Intensive Heat capacity : Extensive A sample containing twice the amount of substance as another sample requires the transfer of twice the amount of heat to achieve the same change in temperature . Density : Intensive Density = \frac{Mass}{Volume} = \frac{Extensive}{Extensive} = Intensive Mole fraction : Intensive Mole fraction = \frac{Moles}{Total moles} = \frac{Extensive}{Extensive} = Intensive Specific heat : Intensive Specific heat = \frac{Heat capacity}{Mass} = \frac{Extensive}{Extensive} = Intensive Temperature : Intensive Dividing in half a tank of water at a given temperature yields two smaller tanks containing water at the same temperature as that in the big tank . Molarity : Intensive Molarity = \frac{Moles}{Volume} = \frac{Extensive}{Extensive} = Intensive$

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The properties which do not depend upon the quantity of matter present in the system are called intensive properties.

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