Even Daniel
Gabriel Fahrenheit and Anders Celsius would not have imagined in their wildest
of dreams that the temperature scale, which eventually named after them, will
create a dichotomy in the world. If they have been still alive, a common ground
would have been achieved, making the conversion unnecessary. However, that has
not happen, even after by the worldwide efforts by the scientific community to
have a uniform measurement system.
So let us
leave that tug of war of Fahrenheit and
Celsius, and concentrate on temperature conversion, until we have a fair world, and we don’t have go through an
agony of converting units. Apparently, that not going to happen soon,
therefore, it will be a good idea to learn how to convert Fahrenheit-Celsius
measurements.
However, before that let us explore the
difference between these units
Celsius, the
measurements under the Metric System, is universal in nature; in the metric
system, ten is the base factor of all measurements, as a result,
inter-conversion of units got easy.
The standard
boiling point of water in Celsius is 100, and 0 is the freezing point. See,
simple. No?
On the other
hand, in Fahrenheit, 212 is the boiling point of water while the number 32 is denoted
for the freezing point, evidently, not simple as Celsius. You must have noticed
that the body temperature is predominantly denoted in Fahrenheit; 98.6 °F is
equivalent to 37 °C. Quite a strange relationship both have.
Let us see
which formula defines their relationship.
T(°C) = (T(°F) ̶ 32) × 5/9 or T(°C) = (T(°F) ̶ 32) × /1.8, where T is temperature.
See, the relationship is not directly proportional,
there are number of variable involved. However, once you learn to use this
formula, you can convert Fahrenheit Celsius, easily.
Similarly to convert Celsius into Fahrenheit, the
formula is,
T(°F) = T(°C) × 9/5 + 32
or
T(°F) = T(°C)
× 1.8 + 32
Put the given value in the formula and calculate, and you
will get your unit of measurement that you are familiar with.
