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What do we feel when we say something is "hot"?
So recently I had learned that temperature is just the average kinetic energy in the system, the more KE in the system particles the higher the temperature, KE is mv^2/2 meaning that temperature is just really the average of how much the particles in the system are vibrating, now this makes me wonder, what exactly do we feel when we say something is hot, is it just the vibrations of the particles that we feel and when these vibrations get larger we say something is geting hotter?
So recently I had learned that temperature is just the average kinetic energy in the system, the more KE in the system particles the higher the temperature, KE is mv^2/2 meaning that temperature is just really the average of how much the particles in the system are vibrating, now this makes me wonder, what exactly do we feel when we say something is hot, is it just the vibrations of the particles that we feel and when these vibrations get larger we say something is geting hotter?