if its zero degrees celcius outside right now and its twice as cold the next day what temperature is it 2moro?

Answer 1

[Note: This is my first day ever on Yahoo Answers. I spent time to give a pretty good answer, and all I got was a thumbs down. Why?]

0ºC is 273.15ºK. The "K" stands for Kelvin, which is basically the same scale as Celsius, but starts at the real zero, where there is no heat at all, rather than the Celsius zero which is where water freezes (at a certain pressure, altitude, the water has to be pure, and so on).

So to have half as much heat as 273.15ºK, it would be 136.575ºK, which is negative 136 degrees Celsius.

But is having half as much heat the same as "twice as cold"?

Probably not, because the expression you used was referring to a human feeling. On average most humans feel neither hot nor cold at 24ºC, so at 0ºC they probably feel half as cold as at -24ºC.

This is with no wind chill factors or anything. It is also assuming that your feelings of hotness or coldness get greater an equal amount, each time the temperature changes by one degree.

So -24ºC is a good answer.

Answer 2

The mathematical conversion will be like this
Day One = 0° C = 32° F
Next day = 32/2 = 16° F = -8.89° C

But practically the feel of the weather can be different due to other factors on the same temperature. Say for example one day its 0° C freezing but the feel is also 0° C because the wind is not blowing, sky is cloudy, precipataion is nil, but next day you can feel it much colder on 0° C if the wind is blowing, sky is clear and it snowed at some point during the day.

By just the judgement you cant say if the feel of twice the cold than yesterday has actually made a difference in temperature unless you measure it with a thermometer.

Answer 3

0 x 2 = ?

Answer 4

"twice as cold" is an abstract comparison. It doesn't have any proper relation with the Celsius, Fahrenheit or kelvin scales.
ask a man from Alaska what he means by twice as cold, and ask another person from India. they'll both give you very different answers.
to cut a long story short, IT's A TRICK QUESTION!

Answer 5

"Twice as cold" has no meaning, and it certainly isn't half the temperature of the day before. Temperature is a relative function of heat capacity of matter. You can say a certain volume of matter has half the heat capacity of another volume of matter.

Answer 6

0 degree Celsius = 32 degree Fahrenheit
Taking fahrenhiet to be twice as cold would make it minus 32 dergrees Fahreheit so.
-32 degree Fahrenheit = -35.5555556 degree Celsius

So my answer would be -35.5 dergrees Celsius tomorrow

Answer 7

Brass monkeys

Answer 8

Impossible to know? Or maybe zero as well!!!

Answer 9

hmm.... infinity!! haha. i don't know. tough question.