What is the kinetic interpretation of temperature?
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Temperature is not defined as the average kinetic energy of the molecules. (Which molecules?) That’s a bogus handwaving explanation employed by teachers who either don’t understand Thermal Physics or think their students can’t understand it or can’t be bothered to tell the whole story. Temperature is defined to be the inverse of the rate of change of the entropy of a system with added energy.
The units of temperature should be energy units, but the various different kinds of “degrees” were made up arbitrarily before anyone actually understood what temperature was (see above), so we’re stuck with them in everyday life. Physicists usually use degrees Kelvin and energy units like eV interchangeably, understanding that Boltzmann’s constant is just an arbitrary conversion factor.
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According to this realtion average kinetic energy of a molecule of an ideal gas is proportional to its average temperature;is independent of the pressure,volume or the nature of the ideal gas. This is called the kinetic interpretation of temperature.