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Question
Define the term energy.
Solution 1
“Capacity of doing work” is called Energy.
Solution 2
Energy, in physics, is the capacity for doing work. It may exist in potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuclear, or other various forms. There are, moreover, heat and work-i.e., energy in the process of transfer from one body to another.
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