Fahrenheit Temperature Quantity and Units

FahrenheitTemperature is a variant of the ThermodynamicTemperature SI base quantity. Variants of the temperature quantities must be convertible into each other. Definitions are provided in namespace fahrenheitTemperature. The base quantity defines derived quantity type DegreeFahrenheitClass and Variables FahrenheitTemperature and Constant FahrenheitTemperatureConstant.

The Dimension of FahrenheitTemperature is .

FahrenheitTemperature defines the following Unit:

• DegreeFahrenheit

The default unit is degree Fahrenheit (^oF). The default name in the base quantity is temperature', and the default symbol is `Thetaf'. The derived quantity does not overwrite these values.

... describe differences Fahrenheit etc. temperatures; ...

... describe conversions between temperatures as an exception ... (see also assignment implementation!!)

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