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Comments (4)
Subject - Name
Minimum point -273.15C
Really hot - Sam
The universe in 10-43 seconds will kill you when you are 20 yottameters away from it
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Degrees Kelvin. I cringed the whole way through this.
Subject - Alan Gould
There is a fundamental problem with ths infographic.
The title of it is "Heat", but all the information is about temperature.
What's missing is the relationship between heat and temperature---they are not one and the same. Heat is a form of energy. When things get hot, yes the temperature goes up, but temperature is not by itself a measure of how much heat an object has. That also depends on the "thermal mass" of the object. You can put a whole lot of heat into something without the temperature going up much, if that thing has a lot of thermal mass. To grasp what thermal mass is, you can compare qualities of everyday things. For example, which is harder to heat up to a given temperature: a heavy cast-iron skillet, or an aluminum pan the same diameter? The cast iron skillet has more thermal mass, and holds more heat. It takes more heat to get it up to a given temperature than does the aluminum pan. And it takes longer for the iron skillet to cool down too. Then there's the slab of styrofoam as compared with the slab of concrete. Which as more thermal mass?
Apart from that, I like the graphic.
Infographics is an interesting term---I've heard it more recently.
I'd like to be able to point to some good examples of infographics.
Please let me know if the you become interested in altering this work at all based on this feedback about the meaning of heat and temperature.
