Question

39. When you heat a flask of water, how are you changing the ordered kinetic energy of the

Answer 1

Answer:

The average kinetic energy of the molecules increases

Explanation:

The temperature of a substance is proportional to the average kinetic energy of the particles in the substance.

In fact, for an ideal gas for instance, there is the following relationship:

$KE=\frac{3}{2}kT$

where

KE is the average kinetic energy of the particles

k is the Boltzmann's constant

T is the absolute temperature of the gas

When we heat a substance (such as the flask of water in this problem), we are giving thermal energy to the particles of the substance; therefore, these particles will move faster on average, so their kinetic energy will increase (and the temperature of the substance will increase as well).