Physics explains that gas molecules move faster when gas temperature rises, does it mean that air is effectively slowed down when it goes above evaporator in an AC?
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The overall movement of an object or gas is not the same as the ‘wiggle’ of atoms within that object or gas.
Cooling in an AC means reducing the wiggle. Often this wiggle-reduction is not induced by any sort of slowing or even cooling in the typical (heat exchange) sense, but by compression.
You can look up explanations of how fridges work if you’re curious about that part.
So yes, the atoms are slowed, but no, the air as a whole is not slowed.
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