Many devices have been invented to accurately measure temperature. It all started with the establishment of a temperature scale. This scale transformed the measurement of temperature into meaningful numbers.
In the early years of the eighteenth century, Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) created the Fahrenheit scale. He set the freezing point of water at 32 degrees and the boiling point at 212 degrees. These two points formed the anchors for his scale.
Later in that century, around 1743, Anders Celsius (1701-1744) invented the Celsius scale. Using the same anchor points, he determined the freezing temperature for water to be 0 degree and the boiling temperature 100 degrees. The Celsius scale is known as a Universal System Unit. It is used throughout science and in most countries.
There is a limit to how cold something can be. The Kelvin scale is designed to go to zero at this minimum temperature. The relationships between the different temperature scales are:
oK = 273.15 + oC oC = (5/9)*(oF-32) oF = (9/5)*oC+32
oF oC oK
Water boils 212 100 373
Room Temperature 72 23 296
Water Freezes 32 0 273
Absolute Zero -460 -273 0
At a temperature of Absolute Zero there is no motion and no heat. Absolute zero is where all atomic and molecular motion stops and is the lowest temperature possible. Absolute Zero occurs at 0 degrees Kelvin or -273.15 degrees Celsius or at -460 degrees Fahrenheit. All objects emit thermal energy or heat unless they have a temperature of absolute zero.
If we want to understand what temperature means on the molecular level, we should remember that temperature is the average energy of the molecules that composes a substance. The atoms and molecules in a substance do not always travel at the same speed. This means that there is a range of energy (the energy of motion) among the molecules. In a gas, for example, the molecules are traveling in random directions at a variety of speeds - some are fast and some are slow. Sometimes these molecules collide with each other. When this happens the higher speed molecule transfers some of its energy to the slower molecule causing the slower molecule to speed up and the faster molecule to slow down. If more energy is put into the system, the average speed of the molecules will increase and more thermal energy or heat will be produced. So, higher temperatures mean a substance has higher average molecular motion. We do not feel or detect a bunch of different temperatures for each molecule which has a different speed. What we measure as the temperature is always related to the average speed of the molecules in a system
Answer:
d. The earth rotates around the sun
Explanation:
- Nicolas Copernicus is considered the first person to give the theory of heliocentric, or Sun-centered system of our planetary system.
- In the heliocentric system, it is considered that the sun is stationary and the earth revolves around the sun.
- He stated that the sun is at the center of the universe and the earth spins on its axis once daily and revolves around the sun in one year.
- And today we know it is correct that earth rotates on its own axis and also revolves around the sun.
The conclusion that is best supported by the data is;
D) A1 and B1 are like poles, but there is not enough information to tell whether they are north poles or south poles.
Answer:A student shoots a spitball with a perfectly horizontal velocity of 9.7 m/s from a height of 1.8 meters. How long will it take for the spitball to hit the ground?
(ignore air resistance) (include units and correct number of significant figures)
Explanation:La respuesta es porque esa es la respuesta, la respuesta al número es 9.7 1.8 Divide =53.888
Answer:
The amount of work the factory worker must to stop the rolling ramp is 294 joules
Explanation:
The object rolling down the frictionless ramp has the following parameters;
The mass of the object = 10 kg
The height from which the object is rolled = 3 meters
The work done by the factory worker to stop the rolling ramp = The initial potential energy, P.E., of the ramp
Where;
The potential energy P.E. = m × g × h
m = The mass of the ramp = 10 kg
g = The acceleration due to gravity = 9.8 m/s²
h = The height from which the object rolls down = 3 m
Therefore, we have;
P.E. = 10 kg × 9.8 m/s² × 3 m = 294 Joules
The work done by the factory worker to stop the rolling ramp = P.E. = 294 joules
