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What is the relationship between kinetic energy and thermal expansion?

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These molecules are always in motion and higher temperature gives them more energy and they vibrate more rapidly and hence have higher kinetic energy. One effect of this rapid motion (high kinetic energy at higher temperatures) is the expansion observed, when we heat a substance.

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