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By "left outside", I presume you mean "left in direct sunlight". Metal just outside on a hot day but not in the sun usually doesn't feel significantly warmer to me. Because as ...

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No, it is not really meaningful in Celsius or Fahrenheit. The reason is that they are interval scales and not ratio scales. Meanwhile Kelvin and Rankine are ratio scales, so talking about a 15% ...

Droplets form when the air inside the bottle cools below the dew point, and the surface provides a place for that moisture to collect.The side that was kept in complete darkness stayed consistently ...

Existing answer by Paulo Rodriguez is correct, and one might add: condensation is a remarkably sensitive indication of temperature when conditions are still. If the condensation is going to happen at ...

To make is simple: The sun light has a mean temperature of the sun surface as can be observed in a sun power plant with focusing mirrors.The equilibrium temperature of the surface of a body is given ...

To add on to what the other answers said, another thing to consider is what will happen to the bottle temperature as the water condenses on it.Condensation releases heat. If you're trying to sense ...

There are actually two reasons:Thermal conductivity. Metals conduct heat better than most other materials which can be quantified as how much energy flows from one face to another face of a a 1m^3 ...

In a closed container at constant temperature, the humidity will eventually reach 100% when there is any liquid water present.What happens when you have temperature differences? When you heat up air ...

The point of an oven is that the things take a long time to reach thermal equilibrium (because air is a bad heat conductor). When you bake cookies you should take them out well before they reach the ...

Question as posed (unrealistic):The question as posed implicitly assumes (I think) that there are no photons in the box initially, and that when we introduce the photons into the box they then ...

Temperature does not measure or express average kinetic energy or average total molecular energy.Temperature for a particular object is proportional to its molecular average kinetic energy at ...

At thermal equilibrium different particles have different kinetic energy, and this follows Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics: the probability of finding a particle with energy $E$ is proportional to $\exp(-...

No, an ideal gas cannot reach negative temperature. In order for a system to reach negative temperature, their needs to be some upper bound on the energies the particles can have. The particles in an ...

This question is not as trivial as some comments make it seem. Let's break it down:If you review the 0th principle of thermodynamics, in its most usual formulations it starts by defining a magnitude ...