TEMPERATURE
1. What is meant by temperature?
Temperature is basically a physical quantity only can be felt by the senses.
Temperature is a measure of the degree or level of heat of an object.
2. Temperature Measurement Tool
An instrument used to measure temperature called a thermometer. The
working principle of the thermometer is the temperature degree balance.
The thermometer will receive temperature from the surrounding
environment/objects that are will be tested. Naturally, the temperature
will flow from higher degrees to lower degrees. This concept is also known
as the Black Principle or also 1st Law of Thermodynamics.
Science Facts
Thermometer
Thermometer comes from two syllables in Latin. Termo which means
temperature or heat, and meter which means measure. The pioneer of
measuring the use of a thermometer for the first time was the scientist
Galileo Galilei from Italy in 1593. Although it was still relatively simple,
using a glass flask measuring small, the technique Galileo was already
using principle of the temperature rise-decrease relationship with
