What is the relationship between temperature and thermal energy?

The temperature of an object is directly proportional to the amount of heat energy it contains. And changing the temperature of an object, therefore, means changing the heat energy it contains. But the temperature is also dependant on the object's mass, and a property of the material called the specific heat. Specific heat is the the heat per unit mass that corresponds to a unit temperature (e.g. 1 degree) for the particular material. For example, liquid water's specific heat is 1 calorie per gram per degree celcius, or 1 cal/g∙°C.

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air exerts forces on falling objects near earth’s surface.

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the term 'free falls' refer to object that are falling towards the earth, in a situation in which gravity is the only force acting on the object.

for an object in free fall, the acceleration is constant (g, the gravitational acceleration), and so the velocity of the object constantly increases.

for objects near earth's surface, there is always another force acting on the object: the resistance due to the air. this force is opposed to the direction of fall of the object, and it is proportional to the velocity of the object, so as the object falls down, this force increases up to a point when it balances the force of gravity, and the object continues its motion at constant velocity (called terminal velocity). since in this case gravity is not the only force acting on the object, we are not in a situation of free fall.

d. platinum would have the greatest temperature increase because it has the lowest specific heat.