If the outside temperature is 50 degrees (F) what would the temperature have to be for it to be twice as warm?

Question

Please do not say 100 degrees (F), because I'm sure this is not the answer. But if you do please explain, remember doubling the number does not equate to doubling the warmth.I don't know if you would have to use Absolute Zero as a base or what?

Answer 1

You have to use absolute zero as a base. This is because 0 degrees C or 0 degrees F does not mean zero heat energy. 0 K means zero heat energy. So it's true that you cannot say 50 F x 2 = 100 F because if you convert into degrees C you get 10 C x 2 = 20 C. 20 C does not equal 100 F. Also, if the temperature was 1 F, 'twice as warm' would be 2 F, a 1 F difference, or if the temperature was 0 F, 'twice as warm' would remain the same. And if it was -300 F, 'twice as warm' would be LOWER and you get -600 F, which is impossible because it's below absolute zero.

Anyway, you shouldn't say 'twice as warm', because as you see later you get an overwhelming result.

50 F = 10 C = 283.15 K
Twice as warm: 283.15 x 2 = 566.3 K = 293.15 C = 560 F
That means that something at 560 F has twice the heat energy of something at 50 F. It may not sound right, but in fact it is.

That's REALLY hot. Don't use the term 'twice as warm', 'half as warm', 'twice as cold', etc. It doesn't work since you will never get a air temperature of more than 500 F on Earth.

Answer 2

For Americans (who are still too backward to adopt the metric system) the answer would be 100 Fahrenheit.

However, in more advanced societies the answer would be 68 degrees Fahrenheit

50 Fahrenheit = 10 Celcius, so 2 X 10 C = 20 C or 68 F

Celcius is used for all scientific measurements so I would go with that. But you are really only measuring the temperature relative to the freezing point of water.

If you measured from absolute zero, 50 F = 10 C = 283 K

Hence 2 X 283 K = 566 K = 293 C = 559.4 F

That's why George Bush can't figure out the whole global warming issue. He's working with Fahrenheit.

Answer 3

If you use the absolute zero scale, then twice as warm would be 559 degrees F. Abosulte zero is -459. 50 degrees F is 509 degrees warmer than absolute zero. So you double the warmth, add 509 to 50, and you get 559 degrees F. I hope I helped you.

Answer 4

Absolute zero is -459 F. Twice as hot on an absolue scale would indeed be very hot. 559 F. But as humans sense heat, it would be something else entirely. 50 F is very cool. 72 to 76 is perfect. Very hot is 90 F. Humans have a very narrow range of temperature tolerance as do almost all creates of the animal kingdom. In my humble opinion, on a human comfort scale if you asked a human at 50 F when they felt twice as warm, I would venture to guess at about 75 F. Why 75 F? Because at 50 F they would be essentually cold and at 75 F, compared to 50 F, they would feel twice as comfortable.

Answer 5

It's actually 566.32 degrees (F), which seems REALLY hot, but that's just the way it is. 50 degrees Fahrenheit isn't really an indication of temperature, since it contains so absolute zero point. 0 degrees Fahrenheit doesn't mean that there's NO heat, it's just a sort of milestone. It's all arbitrary, which is why you have to convert it to Kelvin, which does have an absolute zero point (the theoretical point in which atoms have absolutely zero movement).

Answer 6

This is kind of a trick question there are a lot of variables, such a wind, barometric pressure, and humidity, But if where in a lab I believe it's 2 and 1/5 the actual temperature, Check it out at meteorology.com I'm sure they will have the answer your looking for

Answer 7

You wouldn't have this question if the united states kept up with the rest of the world and used the metric scale.

the answer i got was 68(f)

any how "warm" and "warmer" arn't measurable in degrees on any scale. So to feel twice as warm it really depends on what you think

Answer 8

100 degrees

Answer 9

for what to be twice as warm? ummm 25degrees maybe if your lookin for wats half of 50? i dont really understand the question....