What makes up the total energy of a system?
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What makes up the total energy of a system?
Energy:
Energy is required to move an object. There are many different forms of energy and energy is always conserved. Physicists combine specific types of energy and label that quantity the total energy of a system.
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View this answerThe total energy of a system is the potential energy of the system (gravitational and elastic) and the kinetic energy of the system. The sum of these...
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