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Asked in AIEEE 2002 · Kinetic energy per molecule
Temperature measures the random kinetic energy of the molecules about the container's own frame.
A lorry moving at uniform speed gives every molecule the same extra drift velocity.
An identical velocity added to all of them is ordered motion, not random motion, so it changes nothing about the spread of speeds.
The temperature stays the same.
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