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What causes the motion of particles

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Particles in solids are always vibrating (moving back and forth) in place. The vibrational motion of particles in solids is kinetic energy. Heat makes the particles in a solid vibrate faster, giving them more kinetic energy. Faster-vibrating particles bump into one another more often and hit each other harder.

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