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In this sentence, "If you have ever held a cup of hot cocoa in your hands, you've experienced the movement of thermal energy", Identify the term used to describe the movement of thermal energy and describe the direction in which thermal energy always moves.

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from the region at higher temperature to the region at lower temperature

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when two bodies are brought in thermal contact with each other heat or thermal energy always flows from body at higher temperature to body at lower temperature until both acquire same temperature. In this situation two bodies are said to be in thermal equilibrium . The physical quantity which determines direction of flow of thermal energy is known as temperature

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