I have seen the wikipedia page but still a bit confused. Can anybody elaborate it in simple laymen terms with examples.
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So an absolute scale is Kelvin for temperature, as zero is zero, there is no energy.
Celcius is a relative scale; it works the same as Kelvin but zero isn’t zero, the numbers are just easier to work daily as 0 and 100 are easy points to remember as cold and hot, rather than 273 as cold and 373 as hot
An arbitrary scale has no units it just shows something is greater than something else. I think an example is people rating something from 0 to 10. That value has no units it’s just a rating that can be used as a rough guide or for comparison
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