Re: temperature of an atom
- From: "Randy Poe" <poespam-trap@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 24 Jan 2006 07:35:52 -0800
hollo wrote:
> what is the temperature of an atom
>
> how will an atom act when increassing temperature
At increased temperature, atoms are moving faster. It's
probably easiest to describe in a gas, where molecules are
flying around freely and colliding with each other. The
higher the temperature, the faster the molecules are moving
and spinning, on average.
>
> will the electrons spin faster?
No, but the higher the energy of the collisions, the
more often electrons will be bumped up into higher
shells (energy states). The relation between temperature
and proportion of higher energy electrons is called the
"Boltzmann distribution".
A higher energy state does not correspond to "spinning
faster" for an electron, which is not physically spinning.
However molecules can be spinning, and some increased
energy does go into faster spins.
- Randy
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