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It seems to me that "thermal energy" must be connected somehow to heat.
To illustrate the problems with this arbitrary partition of energy let me
propose some questions and ask some more questions about the questions.
1. Take a quantity of gas in an insulated cylinder and allow it to expand
a factor of two. It will cool off, of course. By how much has its thermal
energy changed in this process?