If it is 0 degrees centigrade outside, then what would the temperature be if it is twice as cold?

Answer 1

Check out these discussions for the answer. The answer lies in converting to the Kelvin temperature scale.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/kids_space/temp.html
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/twice-as-cold-as-zero.htm

Hope this helped.

Answer 2

Most people will probably tell you zero but this is wrong - you can't multiply temperature as it's not measured on a fixed scale.

Presuming the question means 0 degrees Centigrade, then the answer is
-136.58 degrees Centigrade.

The reason is that the absolute figure for heat is measured in
Kelvins, whereby 1 Kelvin has the same value as 1 degree Centigrade,
but 0 Kelvins is at -273.16K, known as ABSOLUTE ZERO (the temperature at which nothing can exist - everything in known existence
solidifies). Thus 0 degrees Centigrade is 273.16 Kelvins.

Twice as cold implies half as hot, which gives us a value of (273.16 /
2), which equals 136.58 Kelvins. By subtracting 273.16, we can
convert this figure back into degrees Centigrade, and hence the answer
of -136.58 degrees Centigrade.

If you want to work in Fahrenheit then it is a similar process,
although the conversion formulae are much more complicated. But 0
degrees Fahr. is -32 degs Cent., which is 255.38 Kelvins.

Divide this by two do make it "twice as cold", and you get 127.69 Kelvins. Convert this back into Fahrenheit, and you get -229.844 degrees Fahrenheit. (Note, that is -145.47 degrees C, 7
degrees C different from our first answer).

Thus there is not one answer, but TWO!

-136.58 degrees Centigrade

OR

-229.844 degrees Fahrenheit

Of course, this is based on the assumption that "twice as cold" is equivalent to "half as hot" which, true, is flawed, but for the sake of simplicity is an assumption that has to be made...

Answer 3

It would depend on the local climate, and where you start counting from as being "cold"... Say 10C is average, therefore at 0C you could claim to be 10C down, then -10C would be twice as far from the average.

Another way would be to try and measure "coldness" that people actually feel... I suspect that you wouldn't have to go nearly as far as 10 more degrees to get people feeling doubly worse about the weather. The trouble is, at 0C, most people would already max out an "are you cold" scale, so "how about now?" is a difficult one.

Answer 4

0 degrees Centigrade = 32 degrees Farheneit.
Twice as cold therefore = 16 degrees F.
16 degrees F = about - 8.8 C.

Answer 5

a million. What contraptions are those ranges? Fahrenheit or Celsius? 2. what's meant with the help of "two times as chilly"? Do you recommend 0.5 unquestionably the temperature? Or do you recommend two times as plenty warmth flux is leaving your physique? with a bit of luck you do no longer recommend 0.5 unquestionably the temperature, the place 0 Celsius is 273.15 ok, and consequently 0.5 unquestionably the temperature is 136.575 ok, this is -136.575 C. this is chilly adequate TO FREEZE YOUR pores and skin OFF. maximum possibly, you recommend "two times as plenty warmth flux", given which you won't be able to sense temperature. you may in user-friendly terms sense warmth flux. because of the fact of this you may touch a wood container and a metallic fork and think of the metallic fork is less warm, even nonetheless they're the two the comparable temperature. Grossly assuming that the modes of warmth flow off your pores and skin are linear modes of warmth flow, this suggests that, warmth flow off your physique is given with the help of the equation: Q_dot = (Tbody - T)/R the place R is an assumed consistent fee referred to as thermal resistance. So: Q_dot_today = (Tbody - Ttoday)/R Q_dot_tomorrow = (Tbody - Ttomorrow)/R situation of the subject: Q_dot_tomorrow = 2*Q_dot_today consequently: (Tbody - Ttomorrow)/R = 2*(Tbody - Ttoday)/R Cancel R: Tbody - Ttomorrow = 2*(Tbody - Ttoday) remedy for Ttomorrow: Ttomorrow = Tbody - 2*(Tbody - Ttoday) Assuming you meant 0 Celsius, our information is: Tbody:=37 Celsius <<< well-known human physique temperature; Ttoday:=0 Celsius; result: Ttomorrow = -37 Celsius

Answer 6

There is no fixed answer as 'cold' is a subjective word without reference to the environment. Zero degrees in a desert is cold but at Antartica it would be 'warm'.
Therefore the quetion cannot be answered without a further frame of reference as too many assumptions would need to be made.
Also for whom are we referencing cold to? Humans, Bears, Squirrels etc etc/

Answer 7

easy 0 degrees cenigrade = 32 ` Farnheight
Twice as cold would be -32 F which would be
-34 degrees Centigrade.

Work it out here

http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/library/tempchrt.htm

Answer 8

It should still be 0 degrees centigrade
or you could cnvert it to K that means it 273K outside, twice as cold is = 136.5
subtract 273K from that and it would be -136.5degree Centigrade
sorry

Answer 9

Technically, it's half of the absolute zero - 273.149

But, in terms of human feeling, there are wind chill, dew point, and moisture content involve in all those feelings. It also depends on human beings as well.

Answer 10

-1 degrees C