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Kelvin is not measured in degrees however, so is excluded by implication
by Lester_Square 3y ago
Kelvin is not measured in degrees however, so is excluded by implication
- flangola7 3y agoIt's not? What is it measured in then?
- bmicraft 3y agoK, not °K
- unwind 3y agoIt is simply measured in Kelvin. Kelvin is the standard unit for temperature, 0 Kelvin is the absolute zero point. Each step is the same size as a degree Celsius, but there are no "degrees". Edit: remove assertion that the scale does not go into negative, because physics.
- deelly 3y agoAs a non-native reader, I`m not sure that I understand. Could you explain why 100 Kelvin, but 100 degrees Celsius and 100 degrees Fahrenheit? Is there some special meaning in a word "degrees" there?
- forbiddenlake 3y agoEarlier comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36584908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36584908
- arrowsmith 3y agoWait, so it's just "five Kelvin", not "five degrees Kelvin"? TIL. Now that I think about, what's the etymological reason we use "degrees" to talk about temperature? We don't measure force in "degrees Newton" or electric current in "degrees Ampère". Why do we do it for Celsius and Fahrenheit?
- Y_Y 3y agoFive kelvins. Just like five metres, no capital letters or funny symbols. The reason you can do it for Celsius or Fahrenheit is that those are scales but not units. The energy in two bodies (with constant heat capacity) at 100° is not the same as in a single body at 200°, but if you use kelvins then it works out.
- ben_w 3y ago> We don't measure force in "degrees Newton" Not for force, no, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_scale
- evanb 3y agoI don’t know but freezing and boiling of water are separated by 180 degrees F.