Thermal expansion Definition and 263 Threads

Homework Statement A rod is measured to be exactly 21.02 cm long using a steel ruler at a temperature of 21.1oC. Both the rod and the ruler are placed in an oven with a temperature of 340.0oC where the rod now measures 21.32 cm using the same ruler. What is the coefficient of thermal...

Homework Statement The pressure p , volume V, number of moles n, and Kelvin temperature K of an ideal gas are related by the equation pv=nRT , where R is a constant. Prove that the coefficient of volume expansion for an ideal gas is equal to the reciprocal of the Kelvin temperature if the...

Homework Statement You somehow manage to get a gold ring with inner diameter 2.26 cm stuck on your finger, even though your knuckle has a diameter of 2.3 cm. The temperature of the ring is 23 degrees C. To what temperature would you have to heat the ring in order to get it off your finger...

Hopefully quick/easy question. I am modeling essentially a flat plate under pressure load in ANSYS with a large thermal change. With fixed or simple support at the outer edges, of course the thermal stresses are crazy high. To try and get a better estimate of stresses without modeling the...

Homework Statement A hollow aluminum cylinder 18.0 cm deep has an internal capacity of 2.000 L at 24.0°C. It is completely filled with turpentine and then slowly warmed to 88.0°C. Note: If applicable, Table 19.1 is available for use in solving this problem. The Attempt at a Solution I solved...

Hey, let's say I have a pipe with a fastener screwed into it. If they are of different materials, how can I find out the pressure/gap between the bolt and nut if they are heated? I don't expect a complete solution of course, just a couple of hints to get me going :) Thanks!

Can anyone please help me figure out how to calculate the change in pitch [in cents] for a piano wire with a given change in temperature? I am not really sure where to start. I assume that I will need to first figure out the thermal expansion of the wire, but how do I then take that...

Homework Statement A brass plug is to be placed in a ring made of iron. At 20 C the diameter of the plug is 8.753 cm and that of the inside ring is 8.743 cm. They must both be brought to what common temperature in order to fit? What if the plug were iron and the ring brass? Homework...

Homework Statement Usually when temperatures are written as "T", they are given in kelvins and when written in "t" they are given in celsius. The equation dL = aLdT used T for temperature yet, in the experiment temperature is measured as celsius. Is there any difference? Why? Homework...

How does thermal expansion effect the diameter of a hole in a sheet metall, When we r dealing with length it is quite easy since then it is only the propotion of change in lengt, and there r standard formulas for this ... But how do you do for a hole in a sheet metal who are free to...

Does anyone have coefficients of thermal expansion in F^-1 instead of in C^-1. I have worked out an equation from thermodynamic first principals that derives the throttling equation I then did the first order non-seperable differential equation: dT/dP = C1*T - C2 to get the following...

Homework Statement In a certain experiment, it is necessary to be able to move a small radioactive source at selected, extremely slow speeds. This is accomplished by fastening the source to one end of an aluminum rod and heating the central section of the rod in a controlled way. If the...

Homework Statement this is a 2 marks question a hole is drilled through a piece of steel what happens to the diameter of the hole as the steel is heated Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution i guess the diameter of the hole decreases as both the outer as well as inner...

at 20C a rod is exactly 20.05cm long on a steel ruler. Both the rod and the ruler are placed in an oven at 270C, where the rod now measures 20.11cm on the same ruler. What is the coefficient of linear expansion for the material of which the rod is made? Homework Equations...

Homework Statement A hollow glass block is floating in a container of methyl alcohol. Initially, everything is at a temperature of 20 degrees C, and just 7% of the block is above the suface of the alcohol. If you heat the container (gently and evenly- so that everything warms up together)...

Homework Statement You pour 108 cm^3 of ethanol, at a temperature of -10.0 degrees C, into a graduated cylinder initially at 20.0 degrees C, filling it to the very top. The cylinder is made of glass with a specific heat of 840 J/(kg *K) and a coefficient of volume expansion of 1.2 *10^-5 K^-1...

[SOLVED] Thermal Expansion Problem Homework Statement A metal ball is just able to pass through a metal ring. When the ball is heated thermal expansion will not allow it to pass through the ring. What would happen if the ring rather than the ball, were heated? Would the ball pass through...

I am looking for a liquid with a high expansion coefficient. This liquid should act as a working fluid in a energy cycle based on a system where the working fluid does not change phase from liquid to gas. So far I have found pentane as the most suitable liquid - but I would like to know if...

[SOLVED] thermal expansion hi everybody my question is: a spherical shell is heated. the volume changes according to the equation V(T)=V(0)(1+yT) where y=volume coeff. of thermal expansion. does this volume refer to the volume enclosed by the shell or the volume of the material making up the...

[b]1. A brass spring has an unstrained length of .18m and a spring constant of 1.3 E4 N/m. THe temperature increases from 21 cel to 135 cel. what is the magnitude of the compressional force that must be applied to the heated spring to bring it back to its original lenght!? [b]2. Linear...

Can anyone offer a literature reference regarding thermal expansion of piping systems? I am interested in reading up on how the use of a linear coefficient compares with using an area coefficient when accounting for diameter expansion. Thanks.

Problem Sphere has ring around it. At T=70C the diameter of the sphere is 0.05% larger than the diameter of the ring. At what temp will the ring be able to come off sphere? Attempt D_s=1.0005*D_r at 70C Sphere delta_V=beta*V_o*delta_T Ring delta_L=alpha*L_o*delta_T L=pi*D_r...

Homework Statement For each of the following statements, determine whether is is correct or incorrect. A. An iron plate has a hole cut in its center. When the plate is heated, the hole gets smaller. B. When the Celsius temperature doubles, the Fahrenheit temperature doubles. C...

Homework Statement An underground gasoline tank at 54°F can hold 1100 gallons of gasoline. If the driver of a tanker truck fills the underground tank on a day when the temperature is 82°F, how many gallons, according to his measure on the truck, can he pour in? Assume that the temperature of...

Homework Statement A grandfather clock is calibrated to 20 degrees Celsius. If the room temperature were to be increased to and maintained at 30 degrees, how much would the clock run slower by in a 7 day period? (Yes, the length of the pendulum is NOT given) Can someone help me with this...

Well I'm having problems trying to understand this problem with a bending bar in my textbook. Since we barely touched the subject of thermal expansion in class (there were no examples on this kind of problem) I'm a little confused. The hint in the problem makes no sense to me and gets me no...

While studying for the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, I came across the following problem that has me puzzled: The problem then goes on to give four possible answers (37.06 degrees C, 38.06 degrees C, 39.06 degrees C, and d. 40.06 degrees C) though I'm convinced that none of them can be...

The problem is listed. I can't figure out thermal expansion really...if there was one material, I know you can say that the displacement due to thermal expansion is equal to the displacement due to the loadings via the wall (that's why normal stresses are developed in that case). But, three...

Hi guys, I need to find out what current i need to expand different type of coils. eg iron, aluminium, copper, etc. Is there a website that can give me this information? I tried searching but no luck. Thx Dazza

Actually it's a math question. Can I cancel V from both side in step 3? thx!

Concrete sidewalks are always laid in sections, with gaps between each section. For example, the drawing shows three identical 2.4 m sections, the outer two of which are against immovable walls. The two identical gaps between the sections are provided so that thermal expansion will not create...

Homework Statement A steel ring with a hole having area of 3.96 cm2 is to be placed on an aluminum rod with cross-sectional area of 4.00 cm2. Both rod and ring are initially at a temperature of 36.0°C. At what common temperature can the steel ring be slipped onto one end of the aluminum rod...

Use a Maxwell relation and the third law of thermodynamics to prove that the thermal expansion coefficient beta must be zero at T=0. I know that B=(delta V/V)/T and I also know the Maxwell relations. I'm just not sure which one to use and how to relate it to beta.

Volume Thermal Expansion Question!?? a spherical brass shell has an interior volume of 1.60 x 10^-3 m^3. Within this interior volume is a solid steel ball that has a volume of 0.70 x 10^-3 m^3. The space between the steel ball and the inner surface of the brass shell is filled completely with...

Here is a two part problem I'm having trouble with: The length of the column of mercury in a thermometer is 4cm when the thermometer is immersed in ice water and 23.5cm when the thermometer is immersed in boiled water. a) What should be the length at room temperature 22degreesCelcius? I...

Hey guys, having some trouble on some thermodynamics this time. 1) A glass flask whose volume is V_o at 0.0 degrees C is completely filled with mercury at this temperature. When flask and mercury are warmed to a temperature of T, a volume V of mercury overflow. If the coefficient of volume...

a steel rod undergoes a streching force of 500n its crossectional area is 2cm^2 find the temp change that would elongate the rod by same amount i useyoungs modulus to get change in length so ym= (F/A)/(deltaX/h) so i solve for r (which is = to h from area of circle) and with a ym for steel...

Hi, I want to ask one question about linear expansion. For eg if we take tke railway rails. then during summer due to the incresing heat the length of the rails increase. Now anything which has a mass has a volume so when the temperature of the metal rails increase during summer...

HI, this problem is supposed to be easy but I don't get it: The coefficient of thermal expansion for Invar is 0.70*10-6K-1. ( Invar is a steel alloy). Given that an Invar pendulum clock keeps perfect time at a room temperature of 20 degree celcius, how much time will the clockgain or lose...

Q: For thermal expansion, does the expansion/contraction take place along all directions uniformly, assuming the material is isotropic and homogeneous? I've had some problems in materials where a change in temperature causes axial changes in length and a different problem where it was diametric...

Question 1: A hole in an aluminum plate has a diameter or 1.178 cm at 23.00 degrees Celsius. (A) What is the diameter of the hole at 199.0 degrees Celsius? (B) What temperature is the diameter of the hole equal to 1.176 cm? For (A) I used the equation Change in Area = 2 * alpha * A *...

A steel tape measure gives the length of a brass rod 102cm when both are at 12 degree C. What would the tape measure read (d) when the temperature increases to 45 degree C? coeff of linear expansion of steel = 1.9 * 10 power -5 coeff of linear expansion of brass = 1.1 * 10 power -5 so this...

Thermal Expansion Please Help! I have a Thermal Expansion problem that I am having trouble with... It goes : A brass rod has a circular cross section of radius .5 cm. The rod fits into a circular hole in a copper sheet with a clearance of .010 mm completely around it when both it and the...

A brass ring of diameter 10.00cm at 20C is heated and slipped over an aluminum rod diameter 10.01cm at 20C. Assuming the average coefficients of linear expansion are constant, to what temperature must the combination be cooled to separate them? what i was thinking of doing here is setting up...

1.) a steel rod is 3 cm in diameter at 25 C. a brass ring has an interior diameter of 2.992 cm at 25 C. at what common temperture will the ring just slide into the rod? for this Q, i am not too sure which equation to use. i think it's the volume change one, which is delta V= beta(Vo)(delta T)...

question: a composite bar of length L=L1+L2 is made from a bar of material 1 and length L1 attached to a bar of material 2 and length L2. show that the effective coefficient of linear thermal expansion is : alpha= (a1L1+a2L2)/L [- alpha/a=coefficient of linear thermal expansion] i...

Hello everyone My query is regarding the following problem: A barometer reads 75.0 cm on a steel scale. The room temperature is 30 degrees C. The scale is correctly graduated for 0 degrees C. The coefficient of linear expansion of steel is \alpha = 1.2 * 10^{-5} per degree C and the...

Hi! How to relate the Young's Modulus with the coefficient of linear thermal expansion? It is known that they are inversely proportional to each other, but how to prove this?

Got this question wrong on this weeks physics quiz and can't figure out why. I keep getting the same answer - which was wrong - over and over. What am I missing? By how much will a slab of concrete 18 m long contract when the temperature drops from 24 °C to -16 °C? (The coefficient of linear...

I have tried this question 6 times (getting the same answer more than once) and am still not getting the correct answer. I think I need some help understanding where I'm going wrong. The question: A container is filled to the brim with 1.35 L of mercury at 20°C. When the temperature of...