{"id":11306,"date":"2012-03-22T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11306"},"modified":"2012-03-22T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:00:13","slug":"it-doesnt-take-a-physicist-to-correct-a-physics-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11306","title":{"rendered":"It Doesn&#039;t Take a Physicist to Correct a Physics Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2012\/03\/20\/comparing-temperatures\">Comparing Temperatures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An article claimed \u2014 in its headline \u2014 that a ~5\u00baC (~10\u00baF) increase in temperature was an increase of 18.7 percent, by calculating using the relative temperature scale.  Which is wrong, of course; e.g. 2\u00baC does not represent twice as much thermal energy as 1\u00baC.  The site has since made a correction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you really want to do a percentage based comparison, you need to convert to an absolute temperature scale like Kelvin, which shows you that it\u2019s actually a 1.8 percent increase in temperature (306.75 \/ 301.45). This is middle school science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, I don&#8217;t think that this is generally taught in middle school.  Or possibly even high school, except to a few students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparing Temperatures An article claimed \u2014 in its headline \u2014 that a ~5\u00baC (~10\u00baF) increase in temperature was an increase of 18.7 percent, by calculating using the relative temperature scale. Which is wrong, of course; e.g. 2\u00baC does not represent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11306\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}