A single particle has no temperature. It has a certain energy or a certain speed--but it is not possible to translate that into a temperature. Only when dealing with random velocity distributions of many particles does a well-defined temperature emerge.
A single particle has no temperature. It has a certain energy or a certain speed--but it is not possible to translate that into a temperature. Only when dealing with random velocity distributions of many particles does a well-defined temperature emerge.
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