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A Car on a Hill
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Key concepts:
- A car with no brakes at the top of a hill is high in potential energy.
- It is a spontaneous process for the car to roll down the hill.
- At the bottom of the hill the car will be lower in potential energy.
- During this event the Second Law of Thermodynamics will have been obeyed.
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Science@a Distance
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