Question

How could two objects have the same temperature but different thermal energies? One object could have more particles and greater total kinetic energy. One object could have more particles and lesser total kinetic energy. One object could have more calories. One object could have more heat.

Answer 1

One object could have more particles and greater total kinetic energy

Step-by-step explanation:

The higher the temperature the more the particles. So, when we have high temperature, there is more particles interacting.

Temperature can simply be defined or gotten by taking the average of of the kinetic energy of the particles in the object that is the keywords here are TAKING THE AVERAGE KINETIC ENERGY

Thermal energy is the energy that can be gotten from adding up all the total kinetic energy of the particles in the object. So, the keywords here are; ADDING UP THE TOTAL KINETIC ENERGIES.

So, when two particles of the same temperature have the different thermal energy it means that One object could have more particles and thus having greater total kinetic energy.