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

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

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

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

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