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Why does the air pressure inside the tires of a car increase ?

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  • Some of the kinetic energy from driving a car is transferred as kinetic energy to the particles spinning inside the tires, which increases the average kinetic energy of the particles of the sample of gas trapped inside the tires.

Therefore air pressure inside the tires increases

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