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what is an example of mechanical energy? chemicals reacting inside a battery electricity flowing through a wire water flowing through turbines in a dam nuclear reactor heating water with radioactive particles
Mechanical energy is the sum of kinetic and potential energy in an object that is used to do work. Water flowing through turbines in a dam has kinetic energy (due to its motion) and potential energy (due to its height in the dam). Chemicals reacting inside a battery is chemical energy, electricity flowing through a wire is electrical energy, and a nuclear reactor heating water with radioactive particles is nuclear energy.
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