Define internal energy.
Describe the change in internal energy if a system's temperature decreases.
Complete the sentence, using words from the options below:
For an ideal gas, temperature is .................... proportional to ................... kinetic energy.
inversely | never | an atom's |
total | directly | average |
Explain why the following statement made by a student is only true for an ideal gas:
'internal energy is the sum of the kinetic energies of all the particles'.
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