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[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago (9 children)

A good genie would instantly invent a metric of "number of degrees in excess of room temperature"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

The indoor temperature is always at room temperature and vice versa. It's not constant though.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

Is the temperature scale directly proportional to the heat energy? I think the amount of energy needed to raise water by 1 degree is the same no matter the starting temperature for example. Is 100°K double the heat energy of 50°K?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Well at some point you encounter a phase change, which complicates things, but mostly the heat capacity (how much energy it takes to raise the temperature) is fairly constant. In an ideal gas it is exactly constant, but that is a bit of an approximation, even if it works quite well for most gases.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Kelvin doesn’t have degrees btw you just say 50K or 100K because it’s an absolute temperature scale as opposed to an arbitrary or relative one like Fahrenheit or Celsius. I’d expect that the energy would be double though that’s more of a feeling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

As long as the mixture of the substance remains constant and there are no phase changes, heat energy and temperature are linear and half the heat energy is half the temperature. In reality this only works for solids because otherwise, halving the heat energy would definitely involve phase changes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

That wish just condenses the atmosphere of half of the planet for half of the time. How do you like your puddles of liquid oxygen now?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

Could someone please explain?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

I think it's acute angle

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

No, it's Kur Tangle

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Is it hotter down south than it is in the summer?

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