How you convert from Centigrades to Kelvin Scale?

Question

PROBLEM: What are the temperatures for freezing water and boiling water on the Kelvin temperature scale?

Please show your work how you get it. Thanks

Answer 1

Yes I can see your problem, as an old far* I have problems converting everything £sterling to Euros Fahrenheit to Centigrade the list is endless.
I do know the formulas, but who wants to go through all that cra*?? I certainly don't, so just do as I did buy a little conversion table that contains every thing and carry that about with you, it will save you a lot of time and effort!!

Answer 2

They are right. The unit for Celsius and Kelvins are the same, they just start at different places. Kelvin starts at absolute zero and Celsius starts at the freezing temperatue of water. So 0 degrees Celsius is 273.16 Kelvins and 0 degrees Kelvin is
-273.16 degrees Celsius. Add 273.16 to whatever Centigrade to get Kelvins. Boiling=373.16K.

Answer 3

As usual, there is a slight confusion about the offset of the Celsius scale. The correct offset is 273.15 K, not 273.16 K.

273.15 K is the ice-point, i.e., the freezing point of water. 273.16 K is the triple point of water.

Therefore, the boiling point of water is 373.15 K:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/kelvin.html

As an aside, the kelvin itself is defined to be 1/273.16th of the triple point of water, hence the source of the confusion.

Answer 4

Whatever you have in Celsius/Centigrade, just add 273.16 to the number and put K instead of degrees Celsius. It's that easy!

The melting and freezing points of pure water at standard pressure are 373.16 K and 273.16 K respectively then.

Answer 5

Kelvin is just +273 of Celsius so:

Freezing water which is 0 degrees Celsius is 273 K
Boiling water which is 100 degrees Celsius is 373 K.

Hope that helped :)