%0 Journal Article %T Medindo a temperatura de um g¨¢s no regime de micro-Kelvin %A Smaira %A Andr¨¦ de Freitas %A M¨¹ller %A Stella Torres %A Magalh£¿es %A Daniel Varela %A Bagnato %A Vanderlei Salvador %J Revista Brasileira de Ensino de F¨ªsica %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1806-11172012000100003 %X scientific development allows us to work today with gas at temperatures far below the 10-6 k . these gases are obtained by optical cooling techniques and need to be characterized for their thermodynamic properties. among these properties is the temperature measurement. we show in a tutorial how low temperatures are measured using techniques called time of flight. these techniques combine basic knowledge of mechanics, thermodynamics, among other topics conventionally studied in the basic physics course. %K atomic physics %K cold atoms %K atomic clock. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1806-11172012000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en