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Revision as of 17:15, 27 August 2020
Thermometry: measuring temperature.
Q1: What is temperature? Just a number?
- A1 - the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance.
- A2 - a measurement of the average kinetic energy of a particle in a system; 3/2kT <--per molecule
Q2: How do we measure temperature?
- A1 - Most commonly we use a thermometer.
