Disregarding which scale is used, Fahrenheit, Celsius, or centigrade, when measuring the intensity of heat in degrees, what is the difference between 98 and 99 degrees (besides one degree). What does this degree mean? Is it a measurement of BTUs, calories burned in a specific amount of time?
2006-06-15 03:44:56 · 6 answers · asked by Glen 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
although whirredup's answer is on the right track (I think) and I like it, can I assume then that temperature rising or falling a degree is not a direct correlation of that pressure measurement comparative to a more substantial measure such as BTUs or calories. BTW, I am not a an expert only a Science Channel Junkie.
What I am trying to get at is someway of describing the measure of temperature simply, e.g., Light Year=Distance light travels in a vacuum over the period of time of one earth year.
2006-06-15 06:22:37 · update #1
The difference of one degree is very meaning.
The temperature on the earth will be one degree-up til 2025, and it's going to be 3 degrees higher than that til 2100. It means that an aspect of the sea water will be much higher than now because of the global warming.
Some of the islands will be crumbled to the sea... A glacier, the antactic oceans....then farms, plains, cities... will be full of waters.
We need to start doing something now.
2006-06-15 04:07:20 · answer #1 · answered by alma_selena 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Degrees are relative measurements. Each scale was created arbitrarily. The original way of measuring heat was by the increase in pressure of a heated fluid within an enclosed chamber, a thermometer. As the fluid gets hotter and expands, it rises up a small cylinder that is marked with degrees. The amount of heat each degree measures is different for different scales depending on where freezing and boiling are on that scale, because those are the only constants (besides absolute zero where motion ceases altogether).
2006-06-15 03:47:48 · answer #2 · answered by whirredup 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If two objects are at the same temperature, then heat flow from one object will be equal to the heat flow from the other object; or the net flow of heat from one to the other is zero.
Conversely, if there is no net flow of heat from one object to the other then the two are at the same temperature.
Now if a third object is made to contact any one of these two objects if heat flows into the third then the third object is said to be at higher temperature; if no flow then it is of same temperature and if heat flows from the third object, it is at high temperature.
Higher the rate of flow, higher the temperature difference.
2006-06-15 04:13:26 · answer #3 · answered by Pearlsawme 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since differences are all about degrees, all degrees are more or less the same to a certain degree.
2006-06-15 04:29:49 · answer #4 · answered by randylucentphilosopher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a degree is one hundredth (1/100) of the difference between the freezing point of water (0'C) and the boling point (100'C)
2006-06-15 03:47:27 · answer #5 · answered by conz84 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-06-15 03:46:59 · answer #6 · answered by EL MONTE FLORES 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋