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So far we have not made use of an important aspect of physical phenomena. Whenever something happens in the physical world, processes are accompanied by an additional quantity– energy. We will see that energy plays a unique role, unlike the roles of quantities which are often mistaken for it such as electricity, motion, or heat.
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Fuchs, H.U. (2010). Energy in Physical Processes. In: The Dynamics of Heat. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7604-8_3
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