Chemomechanics t1_jc2nqn9 wrote
Reply to comment by mesouschrist in If the temperature of a system depends on its average kinetic energy, does it mean the "de facto" temperature depends on the speed of the observer? by Dryu_nya
> Your answer seems to imply that if the system was spinning, you would call it higher temperature
That would be a misreading, because the context of the answer is a question about translational motion. More generally, the bulk motion is typically subtracted before we do thermodynamics. If you don’t see that stated in definitions of temperature, it’s because it’s already been implicitly assumed.
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