Yeah, it's one of those days where I hope I get into one of those schools in California... Actually, it's not all that cold in TO right now (with the wind chill -23), but I'm sick of trudging through this slop! (city snow is rather disgusting).
Erin Quoting Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>:
On 2/15/07, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx <JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx> wrote:Calling all scientists who speak plain English.... Reading Ursula's post, I was curious to know what -39 C was in Fahrenheit. I went to my standard little conversion page and it told me that -39 C is -38 F. Knowing that couldn't possibly be correct, I used another converter, and then looked at a few different temperature scales. All of them indicated that below 0 C, the temp designations for C & F are nearly identical. So, I thought to meself, I thought, I will go learn about this odd phenomenon. Googled. Wikid (is that a verb yet? it surely will be). Read pages about the history of and the math of C & F. Nowhere was I able to discern why the two temps are different above zero Centigrade but not below. Anyone?!The point at which water freezes is called 32 F and 0 C. But 1.0 degree C = 1.8 degrees F. So... as you get colder and colder below 32 f or 0 C, the Fahrenheit scale approaches the C and at -40, they are the same since 40 C degrees equal 72 F degrees. So at -39 C, the F (at -38.2) has almost caught up. At -40, F accelerates into the distance so that "absolute zero" while only being -273.15 C is -459.67 F. I hope you appreciate that I had to login to my gmail account just to answer this question in as plain an English as I could ;-) p
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