Physics GCSE
Kinetic energy and temperature
What Kinetic energy and temperature means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Kinetic energy and temperature
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Reference: OCR
Heating the gas transfers energy to the particles, so their mean kinetic energy rises and they move faster; cooling reverses this.
Topics that use Kinetic energy and temperature
- Pressure (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Atmospheric pressure and weight of air
- Cause-and-effect explanation
- Closed systems
- Collisions with container walls
- Comparing pressures at different heights
- Constant temperature and constant average particle speed
- Density and depth
- density comparison
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