A student conducts an investigation to show the relationship between temperature and kinetic energy and one phase of matter. What were the graph of this relationship look like?
The graph showing the relationship between temperature and kinetic energy for one phase of matter is expected to be a linear graph. The kinetic energy of particles in a substance is directly proportional to the temperature of that substance. As the temperature increases, the average kinetic energy of the particles also increases, and vice versa. Therefore, when plotting temperature on the x-axis and kinetic energy on the y-axis, the resulting graph should show a straight line with a positive slope.
