Same thing. If you just think of Fahrenheit as a yardstick that has the "0" somewhere in the middle, you can see why you have to use Kelvins in order to get a true measure of "twice as much heat".
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Same thing. If you just think of Fahrenheit as a yardstick that has the "0" somewhere in the middle, you can see why you have to use Kelvins in order to get a true measure of "twice as much heat".
The definition of entropy says different.
Harbringer
Your A One Flower Garden
Wia...what? How would two degrees not be twice as much as one? Can someone please explain in layamsn terms this mathy stuff doesnt exactly ring here.....
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
0 degrees Fahrenheit does not equal absolute 0. It's a lot warmer than absolute 0. Thus, 2 degrees Fahrenheit means only a bit warmer than 1 degree, not twice as warm.
It is roughly equivalent to me and someone else standing on a table; I may be as twice as tall as him but my head won't be twice as far from the ground as his.
Harbringer
Your A One Flower Garden
So each individual degree has its won value and the actual number means nothing or something?
Raisin Bran
Cereal Killer
usually where they say it in celsius it more humid than where they say it in fahrenheit.
So i'd say -40 Celsius
Mirc
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No no no, you got me wrong.
The degrees are equal.0 Fahrenheit is not the lowest temperature you can ever obtain*. This means comparing 1 F with 2 F is like comparing 10123 with 10122.
Is 10123 twice as much as 10122?*The lowest temperature is 0 Kelvin. 2 Kelvin is indeed twice as warm as 1 Kelvin. But Kelvin and Fahrenheit do not begin in the same point.
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
Or the other way around...
Harbringer
Your A One Flower Garden
No no no, you got me wrong.
0 Fahrenheit is not the lowest temperature you can ever obtain*. This means comparing 1 F with 2 F is like comparing 10123 with 10122.
*The lowest temperature is 0 Kelvin. 2 Kelvin is indeed twice as warm as 1 Kelvin. But Kelvin and Fahrenheit do not begin in the same point.
So its basically just a short hand way of saying something........
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
Yes. 0 °Kelvin (absolute 0) is −459.67 °F.
So 1 °F = 255.777 °K and 2 °F = 256.333 °K. So the real question is: "Is 256.333 twice as much as 255.777?". And the obvious answer is no.
nonconformist
Miserable
It's because the fahrenheit scale and celcius scale start at completely arbitary points, whereas the kelvin scale is modelled on an absolute.
Well, Celsius' starting point isn't arbitrary, and it is actually more useful for us than Kelvin's.
Mirc
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nonconformist
Miserable
It is arbitary, because it's based on the changing points of water ranginf from 1-100 degrees and then subdivided.
Ecofarm
Deity
Logrithmic = the Richter scale, where an earthquake measuring 4 is 10x an earthquake measuring 3. The difference between a temperature reading 3 and 4 is 1 degree (give or take 9/4 and 32). Not 10x, not double. What scale increases in doubles?!
Decibels are also logarithmic, if I recall.
Ecofarm
Deity
No, the difference between .1 and .2 is .1, not 10, units. When you multiply integers by a constant, u have a logrithmic scale.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
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2F isn't twice as much as 1F because if it were, its "arrow" would be twice as long as 1F's "arrow".
2F is obviously not twice as far from 0 as 1F is. (0 being the lowest possible temperature)
2F isn't twice as much as 1F because if it were, its "arrow" would be twice as long as 1F's "arrow".
2F is obviously not twice as far from 0 as 1F is. (0 being the lowest possible temperature)
