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Yuqing
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Temperature is defined as the average kinetic energy of a system. But would temperature change if some external force was applied to change the total motion? For example, would a ball experience an increase in temperature if the ball was traveling at a high speed as a whole? The average kinetic energy initially is still the same, but the molecules now have another velocity (the velocity of the ball itself). So would we experience this as a change in temperature?