Temperature Reading draws a liquid-in-glass thermometer or a digital thermometer showing the temperature you type, in Celsius, Kelvin or Fahrenheit. On the liquid-in-glass thermometer students read the flat top of the colored column against marks every 1 °C, 1 K or 2 °F, estimating to 0.1, with an optional magnified view of the scale around the reading.
The digital thermometer is a handheld meter wired to a steel probe standing in a beaker, showing 0, 1 or 2 decimal places. Changing the unit converts the reading, so the same temperature can be shown in °C, K and °F for unit conversion practice, alongside questions on reading instruments in labs.
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Read at the flat top of the liquid column, with your eye level with it. Find the last mark below the top, then estimate one more digit: on a thermometer marked every 1 °C, read to 0.1 °C, like 23.4 °C.
There isn’t room for 1 °F marks over the thermometer’s range, so it is marked every 2 °F. Readings are still estimated to 0.1 °F.
The kelvin is an absolute unit, written K with no degree sign. The generator writes it that way on the scale and in the answer key.
No. Changing between °C, K and °F converts the reading you typed, so the thermometer shows the same temperature in the new unit.
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