I spent so much time in the chemistry and physics classrooms and labs, metric and imperial are about the same, either one works for me... although the metric system makes comparison shopping much easier at the grocery store!
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Originally Posted by MCC  22 Centigrade, thats 295K, also known as er.. <socks come off> mult by 1.8, carry the three, add the 32, er.. 71 degrees Farenheit
For those imperial farenheit folk out there (njqt466) K is kelvin and is basically the same as Centigrade with a shifted reference point, the universal "very bloody cold" is –273 ish °C, zero in centigrade is 273K. |
Correct. Degrees centigrade and kelvins are the same size, just indexed differently. Centigrade sets zero at the freezing point of water; kelvin sets zero at absolute zero. Fahrenheit degrees and Rankine degrees are the same size, but Fahrenheit sets the freezing point of water at 32, (older, more complicated standardizing) and Rankine sets zero at absolute zero. That's why I responded to kali as I did. 234 K/-39 C/-39 F in Alaska in mid-July? That's freakin' cold!
Is that for Kelvin? I vaguely recall my teacher mentioning that in Introduction to Physical Science. Since that was 1980 you are going to have to give some normal temperature measurement for those of us who are not scientists to use as a frame of reference.
