Thermal energy
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thermal-energy-188-9521765
title:
Thermal energy
text:
The term "thermal energy" is often used ambiguously in physics and engineering. It can denote several different physical concepts, including:
- Internal energy: The total energy contained within a body of matter or radiation.
- Heat: Energy in transfer between a system and its surroundings by mechanisms other than thermodynamic work and transfer of matter.
- The characteristic energy kBT associated with a single microscopic degree of freedom, where T denotes temperature and kB denotes the
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encyclopedia
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Energy that is measured by temperature
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy
date created:
2004-02-13T09:57:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T10:39:22Z
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