How do you convert calories to degrees Celsius?

Answer 1

You don't, because they measure different things.

Temperature (degrees Celsius) describes how deep the heat is in something,

whereas energy (calories) describes how much heat energy you put into it in

order to make it that deep.

-- I have a bucket of water on the table.

-- I take a small cup, I dip a cup of water out of the bucket, and I place the cup

on the table next to the bucket.

-- The water in the bucket and the water in the cup both have the same temperature.

-- I want to make the cup 10 degrees warmer, and I also want to make the bucket

10 degrees warmer.

-- I'll need to add more calories of heat to the bucket, and fewer calories of heat to the cup,

to raise both temperatures by the same number of degrees.