Question

Sarah heated two cubes of aluminum to 50°C. Cube A has a volume of four cubic centimeters. Cube B has a volume of two cubic centimeters. If the cubes do not touch each other, which of these statements is true?

Cube A has a higher temperature than cube B.

Cube B has a higher temperature than cube A.

Cube A has more thermal energy than cube B.

Cube B has more thermal energy than cube A.

electrical energy

electromagnetic energy

Answer 1

Cube B has more thermal energy than cube A.

Step-by-step explanation:

Thermal energy is the measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules of a matter, which is also inversely proportional to the mass. Since cube B has lesser mass, then fewer molecules. Thus it would have more thermal energy than that of cube A.