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Describe a system you use daily with internal potential energy.
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OpenStax College Physics for AP® Courses, Chapter 7, Problem 26 (Test Prep for AP® Courses)
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This is College Physics Answers with Shaun Dychko. This is a pretty open-ended question: it's asking us to describe a system that we use daily with internal potential energy. So the mouse that I am using for clicking around here has a spring in it and that spring has some elastic potential energy inside of it and you could also talk about lots of other things... when I ride a bike, there's elastic potential energy in the tires... and you know there's... chemical potential energy in the battery of my phone and so on and so on. Okay!