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| Gravitational Potential Energy |
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| Stored energy an object has due to its position. |
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| The distance over which the wave's shape repeats (e.g. crest to crest). |
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| transfer of thermal energy by collisions between particles in matter at a higher temperature and particles in matter at a lower temperature |
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| Energy a moving object has because of its motion; depends on the mass and speed of the object. |
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| The number of occurrences of a repeating (i.e. crest to crest)event per unit time. |
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| transfer of thermal energy in a fluid (liquid or gas) by the movement of warmer and cooler currents of particles. |
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| The total kinetic energy in an object resulting from the random movements of its atoms and molecules. |
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| The range of all possible frequencies. |
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| transfer of thermal energy by electromagnetic waves |
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