What do we know that might help here ?
-- Temperature of a gas is actually the average kinetic energy of its molecules.
-- When something moves faster, its kinetic energy increases.
Knowing just these little factoids, we realize that as a gas gets hotter, the average speed of its molecules increases.
That's exactly what Graph #1 shows.
How about the other graphs ?
-- Graph #3 says that as the temperature goes up, the molecules' speed DEcreases. That can't be right.
-- Graph #4 says that as the temperature goes up, the molecules' speed doesn't change at all. That can't be right.
-- Graph #2 says that after the gas reaches some temperature and you heat it hotter than that, the speed of the molecules starts going DOWN. That can't be right.
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Answer:
im not too sure about that all i know is history
A mechanical wave is a wave that is an oscillation of matter, and therefore transfers energy through a medium. While waves can move over long distances, the movement of the medium of transmission—the material—is limited. Therefore, the oscillating material does not move far from its initial equilibrium position.
