Kinetic Energy

The kinetic theory of gases provides the relationship between the average kinetic energy of gas molecules and the absolute temperature. For a given molecule, the average kinetic energy is expressed as:

where is the Boltzmann constant and is the absolute temperature in Kelvin.

From this equation, it is clear that is directly proportional to . Thus, we can write:

This relationship shows that as the absolute temperature increases, so does the average kinetic energy of the molecules.