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Homework Statement
A steel container is filled with alcohol. For how much kelvins we have to raise the temperature for the pressure to be raised by 6 bar?
Compressibility of alcohol is
<br /> \kappa=1.15 \cdot 10^{-4} bar^{-1}<br />
temperature coefficient of volume expansion of alcohol is
<br /> \beta_a= 7.5 \cdot 10^{-4} K^{-1}<br />
temperature coefficient of length expansion of steel is
<br /> \alpha_s= 1.2 \cdot 10^{-5} K^{-1}<br />
Homework Equations
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The Attempt at a Solution
I solved this problem like this:
<br /> \frac{\Delta V}{V}=(\beta_a-3\alpha)\Delta T\\<br /> \frac{\Delta V}{V}=\kappa\Delta p\\<br /> \frac{\kappa\Delta p}{\beta_a-3\alpha}=\Delta T= 0.97K\\<br />
But the solution is wrong. The correct answer is 9.7K. I'm interested where I made a mistake.