Temperature ? a term that we use almost daily as a matter of course, without being made alert to the physical correlations. But how is the term temperature defined?
Everybody perceives temperature within their environment purely subjectively. If we are too warm or too cold, this is a feeling, which might be different from person to person ? because not everyone gets cold at the same speed. The term temperature ? or, better, the condition, that influences (among other activities) our mind-set ? is discussed daily when we are discussing the expected temperature from the elements forecast with friends, acquaintances or colleagues.
Temperature
With the word temperature (from the Greek ? เครื่องมือที่ใช้วัดความดันเลือด ? = warm), a particular thermal state of a body is described. Heat is really a measure of the power of a body, which is generated by the random motion of its atoms or molecules within the body?s interior. Here, the temperature may be the magnitude of a state which establishes the energy content associated with other physical quantities (mass, heat capacity).
Temperature unit
The machine of temperature may be the Kelvin. At a temperature of 0 K, all atoms or molecules within a body are at rest ? all motion in the body is frozen. One describes this state because the absolute zero point. The Celsius temperature scale which is more common inside our latitudes defines the zero point as the freezing point of water, since this condition could possibly be reproduced without great technical effort in past times.
Temperature measurement
Different physical properties are directly influenced by the temperature and therefore are employed for temperature measurement, such as for example, for example:
the dependence of expansion on temperature
the change in electrical resistance with temperature
voltage generation depending on temperature
temperature-dependent frequency fluctuations
changes in the wavelength of rays of a body, depending on temperature
Note
Info on our temperature measuring instruments are available on the WIKA Website.