Q&A: How would a thermometer that measures temperatures using kelvin scale differ form one that measures Celsius?
Sunday, September 25th, 2011 at
3:12 am
Question by jean m: How would a thermometer that measures temperatures using kelvin scale differ form one that measures Celsius?
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Answer by jonmcn49
You just subtract 273 from your Celsius temperature to get your Kelvin temperature.
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no, you just change the markings on the side. Amazingly you can buy thermometers with both. And its slightly different but just as easy for a digital or mechanical thermometer.
Nope, you ADD 273 to Celsius to get Kelvin. Zero degees C is an ice cube, Zero degrees K is absolute zero, the cessation of all motion. The bottom. So, your ice cube is a toasty 273 deg K.
0 Celsius are about -273 Kelvin, but the increase of one Kelvin and one Celsius are the same.
So the scale of the Kelvin and the Celsius scale of a thermomenter are the same, only that the Kelvin starts under the Celsius scale.
But forget about using the one for the other. A Celsius thermometer is not suted for sutch low temperature like around zero Kelvin, and would not work.