[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

alanfe...@gmail.com alanfeldman48 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 26 14:23:00 EST 2021


On Sunday, December 26, 2021 at 2:13:19 PM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Michael Kraemer @ home <M.Kr... at gsi.de> wrote: 
> >Bill Gunshannon wrote: 
> > 
> >> Other than some labs, who actually uses Kelvin? 
> > 
> >All of Thermodynamics and its applications. 
> >That's way more than just "some labs".
> My thermo class used Rankine, but it was in the seventies. 

Rankine? Really? I didn't know anyone used that so recently!

> 
> Still, Kelvin gets used a lot for things like color temperatures, where it 
> is useful because color changes are perfectly proportional (which they would 
> not be if they were measured in centigrate). 
> temperature is.
> --scott 

That's right! Color! Good call.
> 
> -- 
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Alan



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