Converting Between Temperature Scales (Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin)

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  • Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
  • If you're American, you're familiar with the Fahrenheit scale, so 30 degrees is cold and 100 degrees is hot. But in the rest of the world, nobody uses this scale! They use Celsius, and to them, 30 is pretty darn hot. Furthermore, scientists use Kelvin, and to them, 30 is so cold it would kill you dead! We'd better learn how to convert between this different temperature scales, don't you think?
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 90

  • @aquacandela3705
    @aquacandela3705 2 роки тому +17

    I'm taking a chemistry class right now on this subject, but after reading the chapter over and over I couldn't understand so many things such as WHY this (32) appears in the equation. The textbook doesn't seem to make it clear and is confusing, but now after only 2:48 mins into this video I understand why it's there and it's so simple.
    This was frustrating me to no end, this is exactly what I needed!

    • @carultch
      @carultch 2 роки тому +2

      There is no physical reason to why it is 32 of all possible numbers. It's just how we define the modern version of the Fahrenheit scale. Fortunately, it is only 2 digits that we have to deal with.

    • @bipl8989
      @bipl8989 Рік тому

      It's just an offset to the underlying linear conversion of F = 9/5 x C
      Plot a bunch of dots on graph paper using f = 9/5 x C , C on the X axis, F on the Y axis.
      Choose a bunch of values for C and calculate f for each value of C
      Draw the line through all the dots.
      Now add 32 to each dot. Draw a line vonnecting all those.
      That new line shows all the corresponding values of F.

    • @bipl8989
      @bipl8989 Рік тому

      ​@@carultchThere is a physical reason. 0°C = 32°F Both the temperature of ice water.

    • @carultch
      @carultch Рік тому

      @@bipl8989 You are missing my point. I'm saying there is no reason other than arbitrary convention that 0 C = 32 F. What exactly defines 0 F, is lost to history, as no one has ever been able to reproduce Fahrenheit's original recipe for 0F.

  • @OliveAmanita2682
    @OliveAmanita2682 2 роки тому +9

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  • @jerinjaison5580
    @jerinjaison5580 8 місяців тому +2

    This man is really really great!!

  • @AYO_ADITYA.
    @AYO_ADITYA. 27 днів тому +1

    The fact this video is from 2017 gives me so many memeories

  • @artandcraftwithbt
    @artandcraftwithbt 11 місяців тому +3

    THANK U SIR FOR EXPLAINING THIS IT HELPED A LOT ❤❤

  • @EraoErba
    @EraoErba 4 місяці тому +1

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  • @akpabionkaidem1461
    @akpabionkaidem1461 2 місяці тому +1

    Im only just starting d video but its already so clear i love ❤

  • @bipl8989
    @bipl8989 Рік тому +8

    Easy to do in your head
    C to F. 2 x C, -10%, +32
    F to C C-32, +10%, ÷2
    C to F
    C= 10
    10x2 =20
    -10% = 18
    +32 = 50F

  • @EraoErba
    @EraoErba 4 місяці тому

    Thank you professor Dave

  • @diepduong6637
    @diepduong6637 2 роки тому +1

    very good
    hope you made more video about science and physic

  • @soyelprofeabel
    @soyelprofeabel 2 роки тому +1

    The best explanation, thanks a lot

  • @justjerm1823
    @justjerm1823 3 роки тому +29

    Dude the real reason is why do I have to convert? Why can’t I just understand Celsius like the rest of the world. I love America 😒

    • @carultch
      @carultch 2 роки тому +6

      You'll still need to convert between Celsius and Kelvin, even if you do live in a country that uses the metric system. Few (if any) countries would routinely use the Kelvin scale in weather reports, everyday speech, and on most devices available to the general public. No one wants to think in 3-digit numbers for common temperatures.

    • @ts37924
      @ts37924 Рік тому +1

      Even if you guys used the celcius scale..then also if you wanted to find the value of a temperature outside the range of boiling or melting point of water wether on the celcius or Fahrenheit scale you must first find the value of that temperature on the Kelvin scale only and then convert it into the °C or °F respectively using correct formula. As the celcius and Fahrenheit scale can only measure upto a certain range that is height upto boiling point of water and lowest upto freezing point of water. Where as Kelvin is an absolute scale that can measure any temperature and doesn't have any limitations until it reaches a point where there is not temperature left to measure and all molecular motion ceases.

    • @pravin25
      @pravin25 11 місяців тому

      Because because (😂) of today is Monday

  • @muqsitjalal2225
    @muqsitjalal2225 2 роки тому +6

    Thank you sooo much for your videos proffessor Dave, honestly ,it helped me a lot during online class
    BTW, 3:31 Los Angeles is the winner😜

  • @galactorsus_i.n.c
    @galactorsus_i.n.c 3 роки тому +1

    i get why kelvin is there but USA should really just use Celsius instead, well they should start making the change to Celsius bc ik it needs time to make a change like that

  • @dvoted2u
    @dvoted2u Рік тому

    I LOVE YOU PROFESSOR DAVE

  • @jaeljefinaj5246
    @jaeljefinaj5246 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you ❤

  • @Lpp360
    @Lpp360 9 місяців тому +1

    °Kalvin is superior.

  • @javeedairphaan6076
    @javeedairphaan6076 3 роки тому

    Thank you so much. Love from India

  • @Sunrisestarry
    @Sunrisestarry 2 роки тому

    Thanks so much this is easy to remember

  • @aditiverma1443
    @aditiverma1443 Рік тому +4

    Thank youuu so muchh..!
    All my doubts are clear now!
    My exam is tmrw 😭
    I hope I will score 😅 full

    • @noone12323
      @noone12323 Рік тому +2

      What's your score 🧐🧐

    • @aditiverma1443
      @aditiverma1443 Рік тому +1

      Unfortunately it was 50/80

    • @pravin25
      @pravin25 11 місяців тому

      ​@@noone12323 my score is -273.5 K dayummmmm

  • @degudebebe5535
    @degudebebe5535 10 місяців тому

    Thank you very much teacher !!!!!

  • @tasmiaferdous4945
    @tasmiaferdous4945 4 роки тому +1

    thank you very much sir !!

  • @Gracekutepov671
    @Gracekutepov671 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you so much I learned a lot also I really needed it thanks

  • @doyin2575
    @doyin2575 4 роки тому +2

    Thank you so much for the clarification.......thumbs up

  • @bj.bruner
    @bj.bruner 2 місяці тому +1

    Fahrenheit is how humans feel,
    Celsius is how water feels,
    Kelvin is how atoms feel

  • @mickmccrory8534
    @mickmccrory8534 Місяць тому +1

    It's warmer in Fahrenheit, but your car is faster in Kilometers

  • @cdfactory
    @cdfactory 2 роки тому

    Where did you get that shirt

  • @St0neyBal0gney
    @St0neyBal0gney 3 роки тому +7

    Fahrenheit
    0° Really Cold Outside
    100° Really Hot Outside
    Celsius
    0° Fairly Cold Outside
    100° Dead
    Kelvin
    0° Dead
    100° Dead

  • @aoi1640
    @aoi1640 4 роки тому +7

    I'm here to Guess how hot or cold is it
    This is just about Fahrenheit, Celsius and Kelvin

  • @randomarun2950
    @randomarun2950 7 років тому +4

    I never knew this about this, thanks! I know this now.

  • @tdgtto
    @tdgtto 2 роки тому

    Did your geometry or science teacher took you here?

  • @maahirsharma2001
    @maahirsharma2001 7 років тому +2

    Sir Why is that the temprature of a gas cant go below -273K?(Which is the least temprature that can be achieved.).
    Also why did we needed the Kelvin scale,was it due to tje absolute tempratures of gases?

    • @Vinny.Macedo
      @Vinny.Macedo 7 років тому +2

      You mean -273ºC right?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  7 років тому +10

      you can't have negative numbers in kelvin, that's the point of an absolute temperature scale, no negative numbers. so 0K is -273C, but we can't go below that as 0K represents a complete absence of heat energy. check out my physics tutorials on heat and temperature and thermodynamics for more about why this is the case!

    • @ts37924
      @ts37924 Рік тому

      It is because all kind of molecular motion ceases at the absolute zero temperature and if there is not motion of molecules then there is nothing such as temperature therefore if there is no temperature then how can we measure it... temparature determines the motion of molecules in matter when there is no motion of molecules there is no temperature.. temperature like all physical quantities is quantification of physical properties of matter and in this case motion of molecules is the physical property if matter which when quantified is called temperature just like mass is the quantification of the inertia of a substance and inertia of a substance is a physical property of matter.

  • @abdalazizsawwan328
    @abdalazizsawwan328 7 років тому +2

    Thanks professor !

  • @AnilKumar-is7wm
    @AnilKumar-is7wm 3 роки тому

    Could you please make a video on how is heat transferred

  • @dogbarbill
    @dogbarbill 3 роки тому +1

    Apparently Professor Dave missed class when the conversion formula for a calculator was covered.

  • @aoi1640
    @aoi1640 4 роки тому +10

    I just got a Ad about Homework Sucks
    The Ad was Relatable

  • @redcroat
    @redcroat 3 роки тому

    Wait isnt 1°C=274,15 K,

  • @chairde
    @chairde 3 місяці тому

    Fahrenheit is the best. 70 degrees F is 70 % warm.

  • @danag5610
    @danag5610 3 роки тому

    Is there a way to convert fahrenheit to kelvin?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  3 роки тому

      No you have to hit Celsius first.

    • @PyrusLex86
      @PyrusLex86 2 роки тому

      F = (9/5C)+305.15 and K=(5/9(F-32))+273.15 would do it in one hit as K is just (C+273.15)

  • @electricjeel6706
    @electricjeel6706 4 роки тому

    This and a song about converting in the metric system were in the same Google form. Im in the 8th grade and I had to watch a song about converting in the metric system...
    The song actually really helped.

  • @spacechip3386
    @spacechip3386 2 роки тому

    beautiful theme song.

  • @giovannimariotte4993
    @giovannimariotte4993 4 роки тому

    Thank you for this videos

  • @beatami7183
    @beatami7183 3 роки тому

    Thanks alott

  • @arantxaubide3119
    @arantxaubide3119 4 роки тому +1

    ok

  • @jorgesolis7891
    @jorgesolis7891 2 роки тому

    But is the same temperature....

  • @ValorZeroAdvent
    @ValorZeroAdvent 7 років тому

    What concentration of brine is used in the calibration of a Fahrenheit scale?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  7 років тому +5

      good question, i dunno!

    • @ValorZeroAdvent
      @ValorZeroAdvent 7 років тому +1

      Ah, it's fine. Regardless, I find Fahrenheit very unintuitive because the boiling and melting point of water are assigned seemingly arbitrary numbers, and you can't tell by just glancing without any prior knowledge of the imperial scale. The average person wouldn't use saltwater in a significant scale generally, and so Fahrenheit didn't make any sort of practical sense. I just wish America adopts the metric scale like everyone else in the world someday. It's getting real annoying whenever I talk to my American mates and talk about weather and temperature. I just can't understand imperial without seeing myself spending way too much time learning a new scale I will never use, especially when metric does the same job and arguably better at it.

    • @sodalitia
      @sodalitia 7 років тому +1

      Its easy: it depends how many spoons of salt you added to a teacup of water. The same simple rule applies to imperial measure of length: How much is an inch? The answer is: how long is a stick? I don't get it, why people don't understand imperial system. Its a simple system for simple people.

  • @vijayrana1386
    @vijayrana1386 3 роки тому +2

    2:45 that's what u came for....thx me later....

  • @MasontheMarxistDog
    @MasontheMarxistDog 2 роки тому

    The us should use kelvin

    • @stevealienman767
      @stevealienman767 2 роки тому

      No the whole world should use Fahrenheit with the US because Fahrenheit is more precise in measurements when the temperature is changing. I hate metric scales in temperature all of the other metric measurements are okay in the world just get rid of stupid Celsius and Kelvin use Fahrenheit everywhere

    • @oliverjudson1834
      @oliverjudson1834 2 роки тому +1

      @@stevealienman767 no its not

  • @Baby-zs9jv
    @Baby-zs9jv 4 роки тому +2

    Damn damn damn💯❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @learning-pe9ww
    @learning-pe9ww 2 роки тому

    👍👍👍

  • @jesantonihevileon8611
    @jesantonihevileon8611 Рік тому

    What really count's and matter is what the human beings it's going to feel in theirs skin in winter time. All those 3 scales seems were doing to complicate the human mind.
    Aboriginals peoples knows very well when was cold and hot without using any of those thermometer 🌡️.
    But European so called
    " civilización " only have complicated the way of living today.

  • @grantfloyd3392
    @grantfloyd3392 4 роки тому +3

    mr k sent me here. pls help

  • @NonnofYobiznes
    @NonnofYobiznes 2 роки тому +1

    *9/5* ? Pfff.... it's easier to multiply by 1.8. Nice try , but no cookie professor. Shouldn't you try to simplify things not just make them more complicated?

    • @cdfactory
      @cdfactory 2 роки тому +1

      Bro stfu you’re mad over a fraction 😂

    • @carultch
      @carultch 2 роки тому +2

      The last time I checked, 9/5 is identical to 1.8.

  • @stevealienman767
    @stevealienman767 2 роки тому

    No the whole world should use Fahrenheit with the US because Fahrenheit is more precise in measurements when the temperature is changing. I hate metric scales in temperature all of the other metric measurements are okay in the world just get rid of stupid Celsius and Kelvin use Fahrenheit everywhere

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  2 роки тому +6

      Kelvin is what scientists use. Actually learn things.

    • @oliverjudson1834
      @oliverjudson1834 2 роки тому +2

      kelvin is actually better

    • @oliverjudson1834
      @oliverjudson1834 2 роки тому +1

      lol the imperial system makes no sense

    • @oliverjudson1834
      @oliverjudson1834 2 роки тому

      Fahrenheit is idiotic

    • @carultch
      @carultch 2 роки тому

      @@oliverjudson1834 For most units, I'd agree with you, but Fahrenheit actually makes sense, and has a very practical application. It is roughly a 0 to 100 scale of the general temperatures you'll experience as the temperature of your surroundings. The first third of this scale is freezing cold. The middle third is cold, but not freezing. The 2/3 point is the neutral comfortable temperature. And the upper third is warm to hot.
      Celsius is useful when there is value in keeping track of water's phase change points as milestones of the temperature scale, but it isn't as useful for reporting the temperature in human terms, in numbers most familiar to the general public. You have to use -20C to 40C to represent approximately the same temperature range that 0F to 100F represents.

  • @DSAMENASA
    @DSAMENASA 3 роки тому

    Thank you!