If you were able to increase the kinetic energy of the molecules inside your body, how would this affect your body temperature?
A. It would increase
B. It would decrease
C. It would remain the same
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What type of thinking is required?
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What do you already know about potential and kinetic energy? What other information is related to the question?
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Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?
A. It would increase
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What is the key concept addressed by the question?
· The question asks for you to determine how increased kinetic energy in your body might affect your body temperature.
What type of thinking is required?
· You are being asked to take what you already know about potential and kinetic energy and apply your understanding to determine how increased kinetic energy might affect body temperature.
Gather Content
What do you already know about potential and kinetic energy? What other information is related to the question?
· To solve this problem you’ll need to apply what you know about kinetic energy and use this to infer what might happen to body temperature.
· Remember that kinetic energy is energy associated with things in motion. What effect does temperature how on objects in motion?
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Do you have all the information needed to answer the question?
· Objects in motion are affected by temperature. Think about it; when something is frozen, it is immobile, and its kinetic energy is very low or absent. The opposite would also be true; if you could increase the kinetic energy of your body, the molecules that make up your body would be in motion, and more intensely moving. This would increase the number of contact events between molecules, which would elevate the cellular temperature and thus your body temperature.
Reflect on Process
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?
· Answering this question correctly depended on your ability to use your understanding of kinetic energy and relate it to temperature. If you got an incorrect answer, did you remember that kinetic energy is energy associated with objects in motion? Did you remember that objects in motion frequently generate friction, and friction generates heat? Were you able to apply that understanding to predict that body temperature would increase as kinetic energy increases?
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