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Biological Energy
Key Concepts
A Car on a Hill

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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