How do you distinguish between temperature and heat?

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Catherine Bird

Physics

2 May, 00:03

How do you distinguish between temperature and heat?

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Izabella Keller · Answer 1

The hotter an object is, the faster the motion of the molecules inside it. Thus, the

heat of an object is the total energy of all the molecular motion inside that object. Temperature, on the other hand, is a measure of the average heat or thermal energy of the molecules in a substance.

Azul Barker · Answer 2

Heat is a measure of how many atoms there are in a substance multiplied by how much energy each atom has

Temperature is how fast the atoms in a substance travel