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The brakes on an automobile become hot when they are used continuously because the:

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The reason as to why the breaks of a vehicle becomes hot when they are continuously used is because of the fact that the kinetic energy that is being used is being converted to a thermal energy, causing the brakes of the vehicle to be hot.

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