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13.546 at 293o K.
do you use °K every time you quote an absolute temperature, or do you just use it here to emphasise you are using a temperature?
Because you're *supposed* to just quote in K (no ° symbol) because it's the absolute temperature scale.
my thermo and stat thermo professor was very adamant about using the degree sign on Kelvin (Big no-no). To the extent where he took off points on tests :!: especially after he spent 20 minutes in class explaining why it is incorrect. Luckily I picked it up when I got my first homework back :o
Worryingly, some lecturers here (a minority tbh) use °K
I cringe every time.
Just sloppiness :oops:
Yeah but why use degrees with Farenehit and Centigrade (Celcius) then?
It's just by linguistic analogy...
Because Farenehit and Celcius (Centigrade) are degrees of an absolute scale.
This absolute scale is the Kelvin scale.
Just like angles are degrees of an absolute angle, 360°
If I remember right, it is "quasi" correct to use the degree sign for a temperature differential even on the K scale. Since it quotes a temperature change, rather than an absolute temperature.
Is it named after Kelvin...
Who is Kelvin?...
:?:
Yay for British people again!