On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:15:39 +0000
Fredxx wrote:

On 22/02/2021 16:55, Robin wrote:
On 22/02/2021 16:42, John Rumm wrote:
On 17/02/2021 11:31, jon wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:19:15 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:

On 17 Feb 2021 at 10:11:52 GMT, nightjar
wrote:
I never had a feel for Fahrenheit. It didn't really matter to
me as a kid what the outside temperature was beyond whether I
needed to wrap up
warm or not. It was only when I started science at school that
exact temperatures mattered and we used the cgs system for
that.

It depends where you are. When I moved to Geneva I got a feel
for temps in C. Then I moved to the US and (re)gained a feel for
temps in F. Now I'm back here and it's a feel in C again.

Someone says a number, for a temp, using the units you're used
to, and you know how warm/cold that is, without having to think
about it.

Degrees K are the most sensible, keeps people alert.

No "Degrees" of K, just K


yerrbut that was a change introduced in the late 60s; all right for
you youngsters but you can't expect wrinklies who grew up with
degrees K to keep up

On a more serious note I have since switching from CGS to SI for A
level deprecated the lack of clues in SI units to the type of
quantity or to dimensions.

Did you skip the MKS system?



My thermodynamics lecture advocated the Furlong/Ferkin/Fortnight
System. Some interesting derived units, such as fuel consumption.

--
Davey.