If you've ever tried to tell your friends about the weather in another country, there is likely one number that becomes a ...

Specifically, temperature is a property of matter. Temperature is one of the principal parameters of thermodynamics. On the microscopic scale, temperature is defined as the average energy of ...

In this interactive, create your own temperature scale by choosing fixed points of your own. Then see how your scale compares with the Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin scales.—Richard Pommier ...

Dr Helen Czerski goes on a spectacular journey to the extremes of the temperature scale, where everyday laws of physics break down and a new world of scientific possibility begins.

Imagine a gas is trapped inside a container which has a fixed size (its volume cannot change). Gas pressure is caused by the collisions of the gas particles with the inside of the container as ...

Temperature can therefore be determined through direct measurements of these properties. But how do we define a numerical scale for temperature, as measured by our thermometer? The simplest way is ...