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A cup of hot water contains fewer molecules than a tub of hot water. This same cup of hot water will freeze faster than a tub of hot water. The total thermal energy of a system is not only dependent on the state of the material but also on the (resistance, heat, temp, half-life) and the total number of (atoms, currents, compounds, electromagnetic waves) in the system.

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Answer:

The correct options are;

1) Heat

2) Atoms

Step-by-step explanation:

The heat required to raise a unit mass of a substance by one degree which is the specific heat capacity of the substance, is a quantity characteristic of a given substance and the amount of temperature change experienced by the substance when an amount of heat energy transferred to the substance is a function of the mass of the substance, which is a function of the number of atoms present in the substance.

So also, the total thermal energy that is stored by a substance, that causes a given amount of temperature change, is a function of the heat capacity of the substance.

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