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[QUOTE="DrClaude, post: 6867939, member: 461323"] My post wasn't addressing the OP. Let me do that now. I would consider the energy to be the "internal property of a bulk of matter." Generally speaking, an increase in temperature mean an increase in energy, but the two things are not the same. This is exemplified by heat capacity: the amount of energy necessary for a certain change in temperature is different fro different substances. Then you also have to account for phase transitions, where a lot of energy can flow without a change in temperature. This is why I like Schroeder's simple picture of temperature describing the tendency of a thermodynamic system to exchange energy with another. In more complex systems than ideal gases, the energy is distributed among the different degrees of freedom. [/QUOTE]
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