Shelly tells a friend that her computer needs to be fixed because it has been producing a lot of heat and is smoking. Where is the error in her statement?

Heat is energy being transferred from a warmer object to a cooler one; it is not energy stored in an object. Shelly’s computer is generating thermal energy, which can then transfer to its surroundings as heat. So the error is saying the computer itself is producing heat rather than thermal energy.

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