UNTYERSITY OF THE WITWATER,SRAND, JOHANNESURG

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
PHYSICS

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HEAT -lhermal Exoansion of Solids and Liouids

When necessaxy use the followiug data

Coefficient
Coefficient
Coefficient
Coeffrcient

1.

brass :
steel ::
glass

of linea.r enpansion of
of linear exiansion of
of linear expausion of
of volume expansion oI mercury

1,9 x l$-5 oC-l

1,1 x 10-5 oC-l
8,0 l$-6 oS-1
18,2 l$-5 oQ-l

A brass rod of diameter 5 mm is heated to a temperature of 300oC when its ends

are firmly cla,mped. Find the force that must tre exerted by the clamps on: the
rod if it ii to beprevented from contracting on cooling to 0oC.
Youngts Modulus for brass

1010N/m2

lto+nt1
2.

the eraduation on a brass scale is correct at 0oC, what woutd be the true
length 6t an object that was read by the scale at 25oC as 30,150 cm?

If

po,to+ cm]

3.

A brass tape and a steel tape a,re both 100 metres loug qt 0oC.- On a Jp-! day it
foundihat the brass tape was 1,6 cms longer tban the steel one. What rvas

wa^s

the length of the steel taPe

'
4.

[100,022 metres]

Two thin metal rods of unequal length, one made of brass and the otlrer of stml,
tie beside each other and a^rb joined- at one end. Calculate what the leugths of
OoC if the distance between the fre ends is 5 cm,
independent of tenrperature.

theffi

[Brass 6,88

b.

cm;

steel 11,88 cnr]

The bob of a pendulum cloeli is suspended by a brass wire and keeps- cgJre-ct
time, period 2s, at 10oC. How much will the clock lose in a week if the
temqgrature changes to 18oC ?
Hint : period: zr',|-I'ffi | - tength ..i
['16

6.

sJ

A 100 g, brass weigh{ has an appryent ryeigh_t 9! 91,37 g when immer$ed in &
liquid 6t 20,0oC, a.nd an appiuent rveight bf 83,76-g.-. in the same liquid at
gO,OoC. Find the coefficient of vohune expansion of the liquid.

1416'* 10-4 per

ocl

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7.

I (continued)

thermometer is made from a glass capillary tube with a uniform

which
i,iori-"*tioat a"ea of 0,0L5 mmz aild a thin walled glass reservoir in
the
mercury
is-no
there
that
iirt,f"s 0,1b;# of mercury at 0og. Assuming

Hglil#{. {LTS, ffiu t'%d,ff*

nfalf,T'#-'11i"'-ffi;H#'#Si ?l l*:

cabiUa*'when the thermometer is at 20oC.

[3,1
8.

What mass of IIg must be put in a 100cn9 glass bottle so that the rerraining
volume is inva,riait with temperature ?
Density of mercury

13 600 kg m-3-

,
9.

c*]

[179,5

At room terrperature a steel ball has a radius 1,004 times the radius of a circular
ioL-i" a-UiiiJpiat". ihrough w_hat temperaiure must both be heated for'the
ball just to pass through the hole ?

lsooocJ

10.

A steel container whose volume is 10 / at 20oC is completely full o-f petrol- $py
much petrol overflows when the container is left in the boot of a car, which
reaches 50oC on a hot daY ?
Codficient of cubicat expansion of petrol

x 10-4 oc-l
[0,26