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Units of temperature, a more useful relative scale

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Dec 19, 2013 at 9:55 am #1311198

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Locale: Rangeley, ME

Dec 19, 2013 at 11:10 am #2055951

Andy Stow
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Locale: Midwest USA

Forgot Rankine. Labels same as Celcius.

Dec 19, 2013 at 1:55 pm #2055997

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Rankine is always the red-headed stepchild.

Dec 22, 2013 at 11:09 am #2056845

Anthony Huhn
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Locale: Mid West

Rankine is the absolute Fareinheit scale. The labels should be the same as for the Kelvin scale

Dec 22, 2013 at 11:29 am #2056848

David Thomas
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Locale: North Woods. Far North.

Even more so than the general student population, the outing club at UC Berkeley was heavy on Chem / Physics / Math geeks. So at a weekly meeting when someone mentioned "-40 degrees" and a Linguistics major asked, "Celsius or Fahrenheit?" the mass response of "It doesn't matter!" was deafening.

Dec 22, 2013 at 12:30 pm #2056868

Bob Gross
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Locale: Silicon Valley

David, the same thing happens at every engineering school.

–B.G.–

Dec 22, 2013 at 7:40 pm #2056981

Franco Darioli
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Locale: Gauche, CU.

Celsius
0 fairly cold
100 dead

we visualise that as :

0 water freezes
100 water boils

both of those pretty familiar with most people around the world.
Yes I do know that it is 100C only at sea level, however boiling water "hot" is a concept familiar to people that live in Arctic regions as it is everywhere, 100f "hot day outside" isn't…( it was 105f the other day here…)
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