07/31/25

How is temperature, speed, rms speed, average speed, and kinetic energy related? Also, do collisions conserve total speed the way the conserve total kinetic energy?
I've been looking at distributions of molecular speeds and all these terms have been confusing me. Speed and kinetic energy confuse me especially; how does temperature influence them? Any response... more
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