Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. A railroad car collides with a similar car at rest. The cars lock together. Such a process must convert a significant fraction of the originally moving car’s kinetic energy to thermal energy.
2. If you rub your hands together, they get warmer (try it!). Rubbing therefore heats your hands
3. The heat energy released by a 1-kg bottle of water as its temperature decreases by 1°C could (if we could convert it to gravitational potential energy) lift that bottle hundreds of meters into the air.


1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE

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