Describes the scientists behind the two most commonly used temperature scales, and explains how their scientific research and innovations are still used today.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, a Polish-born Dutch physicist, maker of scientific instruments, and inventor of the alcohol and mercury thermometers, developed the F

University Physics is designed for the two- or three-semester calculus-based physics course. The text has been developed to meet the scope and sequence of most

Though people have surely commented on hot and cold weather for thousands of years, our most commonly used temperature scales both date from the eighteenth cent

"Body Physics was designed to meet the objectives of a one-term high school or freshman level course in physical science, typically designed to provide non-scie