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Internal Energy

138 bytes added, 18:48, 31 January 2019
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: The [[particle]]s in a [[material]] have [[Kinetic Energy Store|kinetic energy]], because they move, and several types of [[Potential Energy|potential energy]] because there are [[force]]s between [[adjacent]] [[particle]]s.
: [[Force]]s of [[attraction]], including [[Chemical Bond|chemical bonds]], pull [[particle]]s together. The further apart the [[particle]]s the more [[Potential Energy|potential energy]] they poses. As a result the [[gas]]eous [[State of Matter|state]] of a [[substance]] has more [[Potential Energy|potential energy]] than the [[liquid]] [[State of Matter|state]] of that [[substance]], even if the [[temperature]] of both is the same because the [[particle]]s are spread apart in a [[gas]] and close together in a [[liquid]].
 
===Equation===
 
'' '''Internal Energy''' = All [[Kinetic Energy Store|kinetic energies]] + all [[Potential Energy|potential energies]]''