Re: temperature of an atom


hurricane corina wrote:
> PD wrote:
> > hollo wrote:
> > > what is the temperature of an atom
> > >
> > > how will an atom act when increassing temperature
> > >
> > > will the electrons spin faster?
> >
> > Temperature is a property of a *collection* of particles, not a single
> > particle alone.
>
> everybody knows that

Then why did you ask about the temperature of a single particle
if "everybody knows" there's no such thing as the temperature
of a single particle?

> even so,
>
> take a pure solid in vacuum
>
> has crystal structure consisting by molecules of atoms with commons
> electrons
>
> therefore in tha solid we have only atoms and empty space
>
> how can tyou say that the temperature doesnt have influence over atoms

Nobody said that. You asked if temperature change causes
a change in electron spin. The answer to that question
is "no".

> if no change on atoms

Nobody said that. You asked about the temperature of a
single atom. There's no such thing as the temperature of a
single atom. If you raise the temperature of an object,
on average the atoms will have more kinetic energy.

But that doesn't mean every single atom has more
kinetic energy.

> where is the temperature information stored?

In the AVERAGE kinetic energy of the atoms and, to some extent, in
the potential energy of the electrons.

> why the atoms are vibrating or coliding?

Because that's what atoms do.

- Randy

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