Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rankine is a thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale named after the Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed it in 1859. The symbol for degrees Rankine is °R[1] (or °Ra if necessary to distinguish it from the R mer and Reaumur scales). Zero on both the Kelvin and Rankine scales is absolute zero, but the Rankine degree is defined as equal to one degree Fahrenheit, rather than the one degree Celsius used by the Kelvin scale. A temperature of –459.67 °F is exactly equal to 0 °R. Some engineering fields in the U.S. and Canada measure thermodynamic temperature using the Rankine scale.

Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.