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Ah, ok. Great. Thank you all very much for your time and expertise, what a great collection of brains..I feel like I just started at another college! I am going to ask about specific heat capacity next, having trouble with a lab experiment :)

Thank you very much for your knowledge, MFB, and for the explanation. it makes a lot more sense. but it still hasn't clicked! Bystander, dude, I totally wish I could understand what you mean, and thanks for the input. But I may need to have it explained to me in the same manner you might explain...

Awesome, thank you so much for the reply. I understand what you said about the internal radius, but in the example I gave, would the two specimens' final diameter still be the same?? ..a solid steel cylinder of 100mm outer diameter, say 200mm long, heated to the same temp as a 200mm section of...

cheers Greg...or is it Professor Bernhardt??! lets just go with Professor Greg.

Hi there everyone! I just signed up to this amazing site, and I look forward to asking a host of odd questions. I am a mature (31) student at an institute if technology in Ireland, and I have just started the second semester of my FIRST year. I am loving every minute of the course, the maths...

Hello everyone! First time asking a question here, go easy on me! I am a first year Mech-Eng student in Ireland, and I need some guidance from one of the amazing brains here at physicsforums. I am told by my thermofluids lecturer that in thermal expansion, the amount of material expanding is...