Fahrenhalf Degrees

[Martin]

Pulkit and Teo it is a real pleasure having your responses. I am still thinking about pulkit suggestions concerning electric units. there is a room for improvement.

 

since this is new I think we should do some simple calculation as a warm up.

 

I think pulkit you have seen that the StefanBoltzmann fourthpower radiation law constant is

 

pi²/60 x 10^-10 power unit per unit area per degree⁴.

 

our power unit is like 1/6 watt and our area is the square handwidth---sort of like the area of one's palm.

 

so let us imagine the surface of the sun, where the temperature is 20,000 degrees and find the radiation brightness of a palmsize area

 

raising to fourthpower----16x10¹⁶

and then the pi²/60 is about 1/6

 

so one sees that the power is a sixth of a million units.

it is a bother typing these superscripts

I shall say 160,000 jots per count.

 

to compare it with a metric figure one can divide by 6 and get

around 27,000 watts.

[Martin]

As I explore the Gbar Planck units I get more and more interested in the eejay energy unit.

 

the way it comes up is this.

you take a macroscopic unit of charge which is a quintillion electrons

(as pulkit points out, that is 1/6 coulomb and still pretty huge amount of electric charge, but let's go with it and see how it works)

 

and then if you try to scale the other Gbar Planck units by powers of ten so as to get practical sizes you come up with a unit of work which is

around 1/100 of a calorie. and the VOLTAGE unit---the work per unit charge---comes out to be close to 1/4 of a conventional volt.

 

I have changed my mind about what to call this voltage unit. Now i want to try calling it quartervolt abbreviated Q.

 

we calculated that the massenergy of an electron is 2.1 million eQ.

we calculated that the ionization potential of the hydrogen is 56 Q.

the surface temperature of the sun turns out to be 2 eeQ.

 

there is a nice correspondence of eejay with degrees of temperature.

One eequeue is worth exactly 10,000 degrees (Fahrenhalf)

 

One eQ is exactly one quintillionth of that practical unit of work we got from Gbar units (was calling it a "jot" of work and it was around 0.04 joule or 1/100 calorie)

 

Oh yes, i forgot to mention, the photon energies of visible light are

reddest red 7 eQ

bluest blue 13 eQ

 

We should be able to do more things with this eequeue.

[Martin]

I should update this Fahrenhalf thread and express the degree in terms of the voltage unit "quartervolt"

[Martin]

What is it that you are freezing and boiling? Fresh water?

 

I am baking a cake in the oven at 350 F' date=' what is the temp in Fh?[/quote']

 

Coquina you posed exactly the right questions needed to nail down a temperature scale.

 

it describes the Fahrenhalf scale to say that fresh water

freezes at 0 degrees

boils at 360 degrees

 

and that the right temperature ("moderate oven") to bake a cake is 640.

 

 

 

there is also an absolute temperature scale that goes with this

but here the main thing is just to get an idea of the size of the degree.

the absolute Fahrenhalf scale would have the same size degree but just

begin down at absolute zero instead of having its zero be freezing.