What will happen to the potential energy of the atoms of a solid when compressed?
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Potential Energy will increase as you are compressing the solid, meaning you are applying some force on the given solid object so, it is being stored in form a Potential energy and when you leave the solid object that energy is used to reform the solid to it's natural shape and size.
But, Solids are almost Incompressible so amount of potential energy stored would almost be negligible.
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Answer:
it will increase
Explanation:
for explanation i would like you think like this
imagine there is a bouncing ball and you bounced it . it hits the ground then the roof and all the surface as coefficient of elasticity=1 so no energy is lost.
the ball goes up and loses its velocity and then take the impulse from the rooftop , highest is rooftop lowest is the velocity of impact result lower impulsive force.
and now we are moving the roof down resulting high speed impact and higher impulsive force resulting increase in energy of ball.
this similar to gas particle as suggested by Maxwell
although this increase in energy will be both potential and kinetic
kinetic because speed is increased
potential because particles is compressed more when it collides with the ball and the temperature of the gas container will also increase according to ideal gas law.