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Suppose a student was careless in re-creating Joule’s experiment and allowed the masses...

Suppose a student was careless in re-creating Joule’s experiment and allowed the masses to speed up quickly as they dropped toward the floor. If he equated the change in gravitational potential energy with the change in thermal energy, would he have found 1 calorie to be greater than or less than 4.2 joules? Explain.

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