This is part 3 of a series on defining temperature. In part one I covered various temperature definitions used and pointed out that “temperature,” unmodified is only a measurement of an emergent statistical property with little meaning beyond that. It is important in physics and daily life, but not a primitive well defined property like mass or energy.
In part two I covered kinetic temperature, which is “what we measure with a thermometer” (Schroeder, 2000). In the original X discussion that spurred me to write these posts, some argued that the “real” definition of “temperature” was the thermodynamic equilibrium temperature. Of course this is not true. For nearly everyone on Earth, thermometers measure temperature…
Source: Watts Up With That?
Press releases
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Alarmism Archives
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Sea level Archives
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