ATOC 184- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
• Course: ATOC 184
• Professor: Eyad Atallah

Document Summary

Is a measure of the average speed of molecule movement in a substance. This is the movement is faster for higher temperatures and slower for lower temperatures. For solid objects it has to do with the rate of vibration whereas with a liquid it deals with the movement. If you put a temperature of something it measures kinetic energy. Different temperature scales were developed based the phases of water (celsius) and human comfort (fahrenheit). The fahrenheit scale was largely developed based on typical outdoors temperatures in england. Kelvin; devised by william thomson (1824-(cid:1005)9(cid:1004)(cid:1011)(cid:895) (cid:449)ho late(cid:396) (cid:396)e(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed the title (cid:862)lo(cid:396)d. Based upon the concept of that 0 degrees is set to an energy state in which there is no molecule movement. Note that both the coldest temperatures in the winter and the warmest temperatures in the summer are over land. Summer: colder over water than land, winter: colder over land than water.