Energy
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Energy particular issues
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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students associate ‘energy’ with humans and other living things

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students explain thermal expansion in terms of increased size of ‘particles’

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students strongly link energy with movement and/or force

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Energy
appears in the relation ΔEΔt>ℏ/2 ΔQ=mcΔθ E=hf E ∝ A^2
has the special case Photon Energy
is used in analyses relating to Emission/Absorption Spectra Phase Change
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