If something moves fast it gains temperature?

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The discussion centers on the relationship between temperature and the kinetic energy of particles in different frames of reference. It establishes that temperature is defined as the average kinetic energy of particles when measured from a frame where the system is at rest. The conversation clarifies that observing a moving bunch of particles from a non-rest frame does not yield a higher temperature due to the exclusion of additional kinetic energy from the temperature calculation. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of understanding temperature through statistical mechanics, which relates energy changes to the number of microstates available.

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Temperature is the average of the kinetic energy of the particles, if the bunch of particle moves fast and you look at the particles in two differece frame of reference, on steady with the bunch of particles and the other not, in the last one you get an higher temperature of the bunch of particle? If not why?

And again, since a body emits electromagnetic radiation at a certain temperature, if you see that body in different frame of reference you should get a doppler effect right? So if you attend to measure the temperature considering the light emmited you get different values?
 
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Cozma Alex said:
Temperature is the average of the kinetic energy of the particles
It is the average kinetic energy of the individual particles using a frame in which the system whose temperature is being measured is at rest. Thus
if the bunch of particle moves fast and you look at the particles in two different frames of reference, oen steady with the bunch of particles and the other not, in the last one you get an higher temperature of the bunch of particle? If not why
You do not, because the the "extra" kinetic energy from choosing a frame in which the system as a whole is moving does not count towards the calculation of the temperature.

This will look much less arbitrary and will make more sense if you learn the definition of temperature from statistical mechanics, where the temperature is calculated from the relationship between the change of energy of a system and the number of microstates available to it. The "average kinetic energy" understanding of temperature is derived from this calculation.
 
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