Question

Temperature is a measure of ____ of the particles in an object.

the difference between the potential and kinetic energy

the sum of the potential and kinetic energy

the average potential energy

the average kinetic energy

Answer 1

Basically, when you heat water, it turns into water vapour As you know , water is a liquid and water vapour is a gas. On heating the liquid molecules, they get excited due to the heat provided to them and the molecules of the begin to collide among themeselves rapidly and more rapidly as you increase the temperature until a point is reached where the liquid begins to boil. At this stage, the liquid molecules gain sufucient enrgy and become gas molecules of water which tend to stay as far apart as possible from each other .

Now, when something begins to move faster, then its velocity increases. Now if you know the relation that Kinetic enrgy is directly proportion to the velocity of each molecule, then you notice, there is an increase in Kinetic Energy.

Potential Energy in simple words can be defined as what "could" be . So Potential Energy (which is the" potential " of molecule to gain energy)does not increase while the Kinetic enrgy does increase.

Answer 2

Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object.

Answer 3

kinetic energy