All units can be decomposed into the fundamental units of mass, length, and time. Some would also add the fundamental unit of charge, which used to be the coulomb but is now, I think, the ampere1. For example, the watt is a joule per second; the joule is a newton-meter; the newton is a kilogram-meter squared per second squared2. You will have to do a similar decomposition of a Kelvin (or a degree Celsius or Fahrenheit). 1. The ampere was once defined as one coulomb per second. But now I think the coulomb is defined as an ampere-second. 2. The unit of force is the newton, F = ma, and the units for acceleration are meters per second squared.
Temperature is a derived quantity that can be expressed in terms of length, mass, and time using the ideal gas law, which relates the pressure, volume, temperature, and universal gas constant of a gas. The ideal gas law equation is PV = nRT, where P is pressure, V is volume, n is the amount of substance, R is the universal gas constant, and T is temperature. Through this equation, temperature can be derived based on the other quantities.
The five fundamental quantities are mass, length, time, electric current, and temperature. These quantities form the basis of the International System of Units (SI) and are used to define all other derived quantities.
The SI units for length are meters (m), for mass are kilograms (kg), and for temperature are kelvin (K).
Matter occupies space and has mass Explain how energy must be described in terms of these two factors Then define energy?
No. Temperature is a property of matter - just like mass or length.
- length: meter (m) - mass: kilogram (kg) - time: second (s) - temperature: kelvin (K)
Matter occupies space and has mass Explain how energy must be described in terms of these two factors Then define energy?
Length: meter Mass: kilogram Volume: cubic meter Temperature: Kelvin
Length: metreMass: kilogram Volume: litre temperature: Kelvin.
Length or distance is measured in metres; temperature is measured in Kelvin.
One of the definitions of "matter" is that it occupies space and possesses rest mass. By this definition, mass is fundamental and since volume is measured in terms of length cubed - both length and volume would also be fundamental (although length really shouldn't be included if you include volume since one is just derived from the other). Temperature, on the other hand is NOT fundamental to matter. Matter can have a temperature, but temperature can also be defined - in a convoluted manner - for a vacuum containing no matter but which has energy passing through it.
Examples of base quantities include length, mass, time, electric current, temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity. Derived quantities are those that are defined in terms of base quantities, such as velocity (length/time), acceleration (length/time^2), force (mass * acceleration), and energy (mass * (length^2/time^2)).