Problems

1. A temperature of absolute zero occurs at 273.15 C. What is this temperature on the Fahrenheit scale?

2. Suppose you are hiking down the Grand Canyon. At the top, the temperature early in the morning is a cool 3 C. By late afternoon, the temperature at the bottom of the canyon has warmed to a sweltering 34 C. What is the difference between the higher and lower temperatures in (a) Fahrenheit degrees and (b) kelvins?

3. On the moon the surface temperature ranges from 375 K during the day to night. What are these temperatures on the (a) Celsius and (b) Fahrenheit scales?

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4. Dermatologists often remove small precancerous skin lesions by freezing them quickly with liquid nitrogen, which has a temperature of 77 K. What is this temperature on the (a) Celsius and (b) Fahrenheit scales?

5. A steel section of the Alaskan pipeline had a length of 65 m and a temperature of 18 C when it was installed. What is its change in length when the temperature drops to a frigid 45 C?

6. An aluminum baseball bat has a length of 0.86 m at a temperature of 17 C. When the temperature of the bat is raised, the bat lengthens by 0.000 16 m. Determine the final temperature of the bat.

7. Find the approximate length of the Golden Gate bridge if it is known that the steel in the roadbed expands by 0.53 m when the temperature changes from +2 to +32 C.

8.provides background for this problem. A hole is drilled through a copper plate whose temperature is 11 C. (a) When the temperature of the plate is increased, will the radius of the hole be larger or smaller than the radius at 11 C? Why? (b) When the plate is heated to 110 C, by what fraction r/r0 will the radius of the hole change?