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Explain why finding the average energy of the system would be a smarter way to record the temperature than giving the energy of each individual particle

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Temperature is defined as the average kinetic energy of the particles of a system.

In a system, there are several particles moving at various velocities and having various values of kinetic energy. It is very difficult to determine the individual kinetic energies of each individual particle.

Hence, we only need to obtain the average kinetic energy of the particles of the system in order to record the temperature.

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