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Mistake Master · AP Physics 2 · Unit 9 · Step-Through Animation
Temperature Is Energy Per Molecule
You'll learnwhat temperature actually measures, where pressure comes from, and how much faster the molecules move when a gas is heated.
A box of gas is just molecules in flight. Temperature says how energetic each one is, pressure is how hard they drum on every surface, and heating the box four times over only doubles their speed. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.
dots carry real Maxwell speeds · pressure counted where no wall is
Before you start
What you're looking at
A box of nitrogen. Each dot is one molecule, moving at a speed drawn from the real distribution.
The question
What do temperature and pressure measure, and how fast are these molecules going?
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