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¿Cuál es la definición de temperatura?What is the definition of temperature?

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Correct answer: a) A physical quantity describing the average random motion of a substance’s molecules, telling us its heat or thermal energy.

Why it is correct

Temperature measures the average agitation of molecules. Heat is the energy passing between bodies.

Why the others are not

  • b) That is heat.
  • c) That is a gradient.
  • d) That is radiation.

How to work it out in the exam

  1. Temperature: molecular motion.

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