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Practice Celsius-Kelvin conversions, thermometer readings, and the meaning of absolute zero.
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Use the thermometer figure. Read the liquid level on the Celsius scale and convert it to the Kelvin scale. What is the temperature?

The thermometer figure shows a Celsius reading for a cold sample. What Kelvin temperature matches the liquid level?

Look at the Celsius thermometer. Which Kelvin reading is equivalent to the liquid level shown?

Read the temperature from the figure's Celsius scale, then state the same temperature in kelvins.

A thermometer in the figure gives a Celsius temperature. What is that temperature on the Kelvin scale?

Use the figure to read the Celsius temperature. What is the corresponding absolute temperature?

The liquid level on the Celsius thermometer marks a mild temperature. Which Kelvin value is equivalent?

Read the Celsius scale in the figure. What should a student write for the same temperature in kelvins?

Use the thermometer figure to find the Celsius reading, then convert it to kelvins.

A sample's Celsius temperature is shown in the figure. What is the same temperature on the Kelvin scale?

Use the thermometer figure. Read the liquid level on the Kelvin scale and convert it to degrees Celsius.

The figure shows a Kelvin temperature for a very cold gas. What is this reading in degrees Celsius?

Read the Kelvin thermometer. Which Celsius temperature matches the liquid level?

Use the figure's Kelvin scale. What is the equivalent temperature on the Celsius scale?

A Kelvin thermometer reading is shown. What should be recorded in degrees Celsius?

The liquid level on the Kelvin scale is shown in the figure. What is the matching Celsius temperature?

Use the thermometer figure to read the absolute temperature. What Celsius temperature is equivalent?

Read the Kelvin value shown by the thermometer, then convert it to degrees Celsius.

The figure shows an absolute temperature on a thermometer. Which Celsius temperature matches it?

Use the Kelvin thermometer reading in the figure. What is the same temperature in degrees Celsius?

A laboratory oven is set to 27 °C. The gas law calculation requires absolute temperature. What is 27 °C in kelvins?
A cold chamber is held at -15 °C. What absolute temperature should be used in a calculation?
A metal sample reaches 45 °C during a heating test. What is this temperature on the Kelvin scale?
An experiment is run at -40 °C. What value should be substituted for temperature in kelvins?
Water vapor is at 100 °C in a thermal physics problem. What is this temperature in kelvins?
A sensor reports 5 °C. Which absolute temperature is equivalent to this reading?
A gas sample is at 250 K. What is the temperature in degrees Celsius?
A beaker is warmed to 310 K. What Celsius temperature is equivalent?
A freezer for a physics demonstration is at 248 K. What is this temperature in degrees Celsius?
A gas thermometer reads 290 K. What temperature is this on the Celsius scale?
A hot water sample is listed as 353 K. What is its temperature in degrees Celsius?
A cooling gas reaches 268 K. What Celsius temperature is equivalent?
A class extrapolates a pressure-versus-temperature graph for a fixed gas sample and the line reaches zero pressure at about -273 °C. What does that point represent?
Why does the Kelvin scale start at 0 K instead of at the freezing point of water?
In the ideal gas law, why must temperature be written in kelvins rather than degrees Celsius?
What is the best high-school physics description of particle motion at absolute zero?
A student says, "At 0 K, a sample becomes infinitely cold and vanishes." Which correction is most accurate?
A fixed amount of ideal gas is sealed in a rigid container. As its Kelvin temperature is reduced toward 0 K, what happens to the extrapolated pressure?
Which statement correctly describes a kelvin temperature used in thermal physics?
A balloon's volume is compared at two temperatures in a Charles's law experiment. Why should the temperatures be converted to kelvins first?
During a heating experiment, water rises from 22 °C to 37 °C. What is the size of this temperature change in kelvins?
A gas cools from 320 K to 305 K. What is the magnitude of the temperature change in degrees Celsius?
Air in a chamber warms from -5 °C to 10 °C. What is this temperature increase in kelvins?
A gas sample's temperature increases from 260 K to 310 K. What is the size of the change in degrees Celsius?
A metal sample cools from 41 °C to 29 °C. What is the magnitude of the temperature change in kelvins?
A heater raises a gas from 291 K to 306 K. What temperature increase would be stated in degrees Celsius?
Which lab-report entry uses the correct symbol and unit for an absolute temperature?
Which temperature is written with the correct symbol for the Celsius scale?
Using the rounded conversion taught in this course, which pair gives the freezing point of water on both scales?
Using the rounded high-school conversion, which pair gives the boiling point of water on both scales?
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