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Temperature is the average kinetic energy of an object.
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When temperature increases the kinetic energy of the particlles decreases true or false?
No. In gases, 'Absolute temperature' is proportionally related to the kinetic energy of the particles. Therefore, increase in temperature results in increase in the kinetic energy of the particles.
What term refers to the total kinetic energy of the particles in a material?
Thermal energy is the term for total kinetic energy in a substance, according to a 5th grade science book. There may be other forms of energy in a substance, but thermal energy is the total kinetic energy.Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a sample.
Can objects mechanical energy be equal to its gravitational potential energy?
Yes. Mechanical energy is the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy; this includes gravitational potential energy.
Why did one barbell have potential energy while the other did not?
it was anger
Distinguish between heat and internal energy?
Heat is defined as "energy in transit owed to a difference in temperature". The "internal energy" (or intrinsic energy) is the sum of the energy of all the atoms or molecules in a given body. In gases it includes the molecules or atoms kinetic energy (translation energy), rotational energy, vibrational energy, electronic energy... Solids lack the kinetic and rotational energies. Internal energy is thermal energy. So is heat, but heat is thermal energy in motion due to a difference in temperature.
How is kinetic energy related to the states of matter?
Average kinetic energy on an atomic or molecular scale is what we perceive as temperature, and temperature is a major determinant of phase (along with pressure, which is the other major determinant).
The average Kinetic energy of the particles of an object is what?
The term we use to describe this kind of measurement is "temperature". Note that temperature is not directly the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object (for one thing, temperature is measured in kelvins, kinetic energy is measured in joules). However, the two are related to each other.
When temperature increases the kinetic energy of the particlles decreases true or false?
No. In gases, 'Absolute temperature' is proportionally related to the kinetic energy of the particles. Therefore, increase in temperature results in increase in the kinetic energy of the particles.
How does temperature happen?
Temperature is a measure of the kinetic energy of the particles in a substance. Temperature in Kelvin is proportional to kinetic energy of particles. Heat on the other hand depends on the amount of substance present.
Why is kinetic energy denoted T?
'T' usually denotes temperature. In thermal physics, temperature is a measure of the kinetic energy of particles as they move around inside the substance.I can't think of any other explanation, as the letter 'T' is not really linked with kinetic energy in any other situation.
What is the energy of a moving object?
Kinetic Energy Ek=(1/2)mv2 Other related terms would be Momentum, Inertia, and someone else suggested Vector Energy in a related question.
Why is electrical energy is a kind of kinetic energy?
It is related to the movement of electrons (or other charged particles).
If temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of something why do planes not get very warm when accelerated to very fast speeds which increase their kinetic energy?
Heat is the average kinetic energy at the molecular level. A planes forward momentum and kinetic energy as a whole does not affect the kinetic energy of the individual particles with respect to each other. So you don't see a temperature change.
Define kinetic energy in terms of temperature?
The reverse is usually done .... Define temperature in terms of KE. The temperature of a body is proportional the the average Kinetic Energy of the particles (molecules or atoms) that make up the body. Can't be done the other way because a car traveling at 60 miles per hour has Kinetic energy which has nothing to do with temperature. The car doesn't care if is 100 degrees or 20 degrees.
How do the forms of potential energy kinetic energy non-mechanical also mechanical energy related to each other?
Mechanical energy comprises of both potential and kinetic energy. For example- Flying kite
How is temperature related to energy?
Temperature is the average kinetic energy of a substance, As a substance gains kinetic energy, its particles begin to move faster. While solids vibrate in place, the particles in a liquid slip and slide past each other, and in gasses, the particles move even faster and further apart. As the kinetic energy of a substance increases, the particles collide with one another with greater force and frequency. Every time particles collide, there is friction between them. Just as your hands get warm when you rub them together, the particles begin to warm as they collide. This is why there is a direct relationship between the temperature and the kinetic energy of a substance.
What is he relationship between temperature and kinetic energy?
Consider the example that you have a iron rod you start hearting one end by burner and after some time you will find that the whole iron rod is uniformly heated. First of all, when you give heat to anything the atoms constituting it will get energy and hence excited atoms oscillate (kinetic energy) and thus this process is transferred from atoms to atoms consecutively (atomes from one of the rod to the atoms at the other end) and thus heat is uniformly distributed on the whole iron rod.
