Playing cricket
Question: A friend of mine assures me you can tell the temperature by
listening to the chirping of crickets. Is this true and, if so, how?
Answer: There is an old rule that the ambient temperature in degrees
Fahrenheit is equal to the number of cricket chirps in 15 seconds plus 40. The
ambient temperature in Celsius is roughly equal to the number of cricket chirps
in 8 seconds plus 5.
Thus, if a cricket is heard to chirp 112 times in one minute, the temperature
is approximately 68 °F or 20 °C.
Experiments that have been carried…
