If one could somehow (pretend) get the temperature of an ideal gas to be absolute zero (i.e., 0 K) which of the following properties of the molecules of that gas would not be zero?  (If you do not like pretending, for an ideal gas which of the following properties of the molecules does not have to be close to zero when the temperature is close to absolute zero?) Group of answer choices a) Average speed would not go to zero. b) Average momentum would not go to zero. c) Average kinetic energy would not go to zero. d) More than one of these would not go to zero. e) None of these (that is, they would all go to zero).

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If one could somehow (pretend) get the temperature of an ideal gas to be absolute zero (i.e., 0 K) which of the following properties of the molecules of that gas would not be zero?  (If you do not like pretending, for an ideal gas which of the following properties of the molecules does not have to be close to zero when the temperature is close to absolute zero?)

Group of answer choices
a) Average speed would not go to zero.
b) Average momentum would not go to zero.
c) Average kinetic energy would not go to zero.
d) More than one of these would not go to zero.
e) None of these (that is, they would all go to zero).
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