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fog37
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Hello,
I asked this similar questions on a different thread but it may be more appropriate for the chemistry forum.
What is the reason we can only measure energy "changes" and not the actual energy value associated with a system? Absolute energies and enthalpy cannot be determined but I am not sure why...
I guess we can still say that a system has more or less energy than another system but we cannot know the actual energies of each system, only their difference...
However, when a car moves at a certain speed, we can certainly express the car's kinetic energy without a problem...
Thanks!
I asked this similar questions on a different thread but it may be more appropriate for the chemistry forum.
What is the reason we can only measure energy "changes" and not the actual energy value associated with a system? Absolute energies and enthalpy cannot be determined but I am not sure why...
I guess we can still say that a system has more or less energy than another system but we cannot know the actual energies of each system, only their difference...
However, when a car moves at a certain speed, we can certainly express the car's kinetic energy without a problem...
Thanks!