Two Examples of Expected Values & Functions: Temperature in C vs F, and the Kinetic Theory of Gases @Eigensteve
Two Examples of Expected Values & Functions: Temperature in C vs F, and the Kinetic Theory of Gases  @Eigensteve
Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Two useful engineering examples of functions of a random variable arise in gas dynamics. First, we explore the simple conversion of temperature between C and F, and next we explore the temperature as derived from Maxwell's distribution.

This video was produced at the University of Washington, and we acknowledge funding support from the Boeing Company

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00:00 Intro
02:00 Expectation of aX + b
05:55 Variance of aX + b
09:15 Expectation of Kinetic Energy
15:10 Outro
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Two Examples of Expected Values & Functions: Temperature in C vs F, and the Kinetic Theory of Gases

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