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If we consider a gallon of gas as having 100 units of energy, and 25 of those units are used to move the car, what law of thermodynamics accounts for the other 75 units of energy? Answer the first law
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If we consider a gallon of gas as having 100 units of energy, and 25 of those units are used to move the car, what law of thermodynamics accounts for the other 75 units of energy?

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the first law

the second law

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Its the first law.

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The first law

The first law dictates that the total energy in a system remains constant.
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