Temperature Trivia: I'm sure some of you know this, but both Celsius and Fahrenheit were named after the men who developed those scales for measuring temperature. You might also know...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I'm sure some of you know this, but both Celsius and Fahrenheit were named after the men who developed those scales for measuring temperature.

You might also know that both readings are the same at -40°, a temperature i hope never to see.

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MichaelH Loc: NorCal via Lansing, MI

And the Kelvin scale is named after the Belfast-born, Glasgow University engineer and physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907). [From wikipedia.]

cheineck Loc: Hobe Sound, FL

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm sure some of you know this, but both Celsius and Fahrenheit were named after the men who developed those scales for measuring temperature.

You might also know that both readings are the same at -40°, a temperature i hope never to see.

Was on the flightline working on F-102 Fighters at -40 degrees. Not fun.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

The Celsius scale is based on water. 0C is the freezing point of pure water at sea level. 100C is the boiling point of pure water at sea level.

The Farenheit scale is partly based on water. 0F is the coldest mixture of ice and salt you can make. 100F was the body temperature of some variety of cattle (don't remember which one).

SX2002 Loc: Adelaide, South Australia

All I know is that it's going to be over 40C for the rest of this week down here...some parts in the outback are tipped to exceed 50C...

nicksr1125 Loc: Mesa, AZ

Left Honolulu, HI in early January 1981 for an inspection trip to Osan, Korea. It was 65 when we left Hickam; 32 when we arrived in Tokyo. The next morning we flew into Osan. It was -25 when we arrived. Before the night was over it had dropped to -40. The folks that picked us up in Seoul brought parkas & long johns & we changed in the van on the way back to Osan.

nicksr1125 Loc: Mesa, AZ

Left Honolulu, HI in early January 1981 for an inspection trip to Osan, Korea. It was 65 when we left Hickam; 32 when we arrived in Tokyo. The next morning we flew into Osan. It was -25 when we arrived. Before the night was over it had dropped to -40. The folks that picked us up in Seoul brought parkas & long johns & we changed in the van on the way back to Osan.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm sure some of you know this, but both Celsius and Fahrenheit were named after the men who developed those scales for measuring temperature.

You might also know that both readings are the same at -40°, a temperature i hope never to see.

Yes, I know and been there and done that. I personally think the Fahrenheit measures are very strange and do not make any sense!
Who in the hell would come up with a number like 32 for the freezing point???? Zero makes perfectly sense, hence anything below freezing is - (minus), and anything above is+ (plus), like in Celcius, so how do one get to 32? And it goes on from there, water starts boiling at exactly 100 degrees and not some odd, weired number. Its the same story with decimal and metric systems, decimal is very, very simple and logic, while metric does not make a whole lot of sense!

Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm sure some of you know this, but both Celsius and Fahrenheit were named after the men who developed those scales for measuring temperature.

You might also know that both readings are the same at -40°, a temperature i hope never to see.

Well count yourself lucky you weren’t here. We’ve had a record 5 days 44-5 C degrees.
We usually get one or two in a row, but 5 is cruel. But I guess we’ve got more to come before cool weather in April.

Tex-s

MichaelH wrote:

And the Kelvin scale is named after the Belfast-born, Glasgow University engineer and physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907). [From wikipedia.]

....and the Kelvin scale was created strictly so that computations, mostly on the behavior of gases, could be done more easily. When I teach the concept, I call it the 'lazy chemist' scale as a justification for its use.

Simply put, using the Farenheit or Celcius scales for computations involving gas behavior will involve equations in the form

y = m(x) +b where b is non zero

However, by creating the Kelvin scale, all of the relationships take the form

y = m(x)

which means all of the math computations are strictly proportional, and require far fewer manipulations to solve. i.e. 'lazy chemists' scale.

Alafoto Loc: Montgomery, AL

Diversity lads... We're all about diversity these days.

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm sure some of you know this, but both Celsius and Fahrenheit were named after the men who developed those scales for measuring temperature.

You might also know that both readings are the same at -40°, a temperature i hope never to see.

Kelvin, Watt, Celsius, Volta, Ampere, Joule and other famous scientist/inventors all had wonderful units of measurements named after them. I always felt bad for Thomas Crapper who utilized a siphon effect to develop the flush toilet (Was he flushed with success?). How has this poor guy's named been immortalized?!!

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

speters wrote:

...decimal is very, very simple and logic, while metric does not make a whole lot of sense!

??????

jhkfly

speters wrote:
...decimal is very, very simple and logic, while metric does not make a whole lot of sense!

What controversy is there between "decimal" and metric? Doesn't metric use decimals? I thought "English" measures were the "senseless" ones.