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    Thermal Expansion Worksheet

    Introduction to Physics

    FORMULAS
    Linear expansion ∆L = αLO ∆T
    Area expansion ∆A = (2α)AO ∆T
    Volume expansion ∆V = βVO ∆T

    1. Most bridges contain interlocking steel grates (α steel = 1.2 x 10 - 5 ºC -1) that allow the bridge to expand and
    contract with the changes in temperature. The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is about 1350 meters long.
    .
    (A) The seasonal temperature variation in San Francisco ranges from about 0ºC to 30ºC. How much will the
    bridge expand between these two extremes?
    (B) What percent of the length of a subcompact automobile, 2.5 meters, does this gap represent?

    2. Selena has a fire in her fireplace to warm her 20ºC apartment. She realizes that she has accidentally left the
    iron poker (α iron = 1.2 x 10 - 5 ºC -1) in the fire. How hot is the fire if the 0.60-meter poker lengthens 0.30 cm?

    3. Just before midnight, when the air temperature of 10.0ºC, Karl stops and fills the 0.0600 m3 gas tank in his
    car. At noon the next day, when the temperature has risen to 32ºC, Karl finds a puddle of gasoline (βgas = 3 x 10
    -4
    ºC -1) beneath his car.

    (A) How much gasoline spilled out of Karl's car? (assume that there was virtually no change in the volume of
    his tank)

    4. As he rides the train to work on a - 4ºC winter day, Mr. Trump notices that he can hear the click of the train
    going over the spaces between the rails. Six months later, on a 30ºC summer day, the rails are pushed together
    and he hears no clicks. If the rails are 5 meters long when the temperature is 30ºC, how large a gap is left
    between the steel rails (α steel = 1.2 x 10 - 5 ºC -1) on the cold winter day?

    5. A popular winter activity of many college students is "traying," or sliding down a snow-covered hill on a tray
    borrowed from the dining hall. If Joanne removes a 0.35 meter x 0.65 meter aluminum tray (α aluminum = 2.4 x 10 -
    5
    ºC -1) from the 20ºC dining hall to go traying outside in the brisk - 8ºC winter air, how much will the tray
    shrink when it is taken outside?

    ANSWERS: 0.49 m; 20% 437 �C 3.96 x 10 -4 m � 2.0 x 10 -3 m 3.1 x 10-4 m �

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