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A cup of hot coffee sits on your desk. Assume that some of the thermal energy in the cof...

A cup of hot coffee sits on your desk. Assume that some of the thermal energy in the coffee can be converted to gravitational potential energy of the coffee-Earth system—enough so that the coffee rises up above the rim of the cup. Estimate the drop in temperature needed to accomplish this energy conversion. Why does this conversion not occur?

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