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So I just want to point out really quickly that I'm only using the degree symbol here for Celsius, and I'm doing that intentionally. We don't need this symbol with Kelvin scale because instead of calling the temperature units degrees, we just call them Kelvin. The only thing we need is an uppercase K. Now converting between the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales is a little bit more complicated.
You see in Fahrenheit, water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, and water boils at degrees Fahrenheit. This give us a span between the freezing point and the boiling point of water of degree units. We're going to need to consider two different adjustments here; one for degree size because the units have a different magnitude, and the same value, or the same span of temperature is units in Celsius and units in Fahrenheit.
We're also going to need to account for the two different zero points, zero degrees Celsius for freezing, and 32 degrees Fahrenheit for the freezing point of water.
First we can say that degrees Fahrenheit is equal to degrees Celsius. Again, we can say this because both of these magnitudes refer to the same change in total energy.
If we write this as a ratio, we have over which just reduces down to nine over five. So the ratio of Fahrenheit to Celsius is nine to five. Now we need to think about the two different zero points. Because 32 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to zero degrees Celsius, we can find the Celsius temperature if we take the temperature in Fahrenheit and we subtract 32 degrees from it. This makes sense because 32 degrees Fahrenheit minus 32 degrees Fahrenheit would give us zero degrees Celsius.
Now we just need to apply the unit ratio, so just like any dimensional analysis problem, we need to cancel out the degrees Fahrenheit. If we put the degrees Fahrenheit on the bottom here, so nine degrees Fahrenheit, we can cancel out the Fahrenheit leaving us with just degrees Celsius.
To find the temperature in Celsius, we take the temperature in Fahrenheit subtract 32 from it, and multiply it by a ratio of five to nine. Then we can also manipulate this formula if we want to start with Celsius. All we have to do is solve for the temperature in Fahrenheit.
To start we would divide both sides by five over nine, or that's the same thing as multiplying by the reciprocal. Then to finish it off, we would just add 32, so plus 32 is equal to the temperature in Fahrenheit. Now if we want to start with temperature in Celsius, we can move to temperature in Fahrenheit, or we could start with temperature in Fahrenheit and move to temperature in Celsius. To practice this let's go from Celsius to Fahrenheit. It turns out that these temperature scales actually cross paths at a temperature which is kind of a fun fact.
If we plug in negative 40, let's go from negative 40 degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit. We'll find that TF is equal to negative 40 times nine-fifths plus We can reduce this term here, so five and negative forty reduces to negative eight.
So negative eight times nine plus That's negative 72 plus So the temperature in Fahrenheit would equal negative 40 as well. So negative 40 degrees Celsius is the same thing as saying negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit. That's kind of just a fun fact.
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