Like the Kelvin scale, the Rankine scale is an absolute temperatu...

Question

Like the Kelvin scale, the Rankine scale is an absolute temperature scale: Absolute zero is zero degrees Rankine (0°R). However, the units of this scale are the same size as those of the Fahrenheit scale rather than the Celsius scale. What is the numerical value of the triple-point temperature of water on the Rankine scale?

Accepted Answer

Welcome back everybody, We are tasked with finding what the boiling point of water which we know is 100 degrees Celsius is on the ranking scale. Well we have a formula to convert from Fahrenheit to Rankin and we know we can convert to Celsius to Fahrenheit with this formula right here to go from Fahrenheit to Rankin, It is simply the Fahrenheit degree measure plus 459.67. So first let's find our Fahrenheit degree measure and then we will go over to the ranking to find our boiling point on the ranking scale. So our Fahrenheit degree measure is just going to be 9/5 times are degrees Celsius plus 32. This gives us a degree measure of 212 F. Now let's go ahead and plug this into our ranking conversion formula. This will be our Fahrenheit degree measure of 2 12 plus 59.67, which gives us a final answer of the boiling point of water on the ranking scale. As 6 71.67 degrees Rankine corresponding to our final answer choice of D Thank you all so much for watching. Hope this video helped. We'll see you all in the next one

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