Thermal Expansion and Heat Transfer Problems
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1.A iron bar Iron= 12 10 K.) is6 1,000
l
m long at a temperature of 100°C. Calculate its
length at 0°C and at 500°C.
A bar, which at a temperature of 0 °C has a length of 1 m, heated to a temperature of 100 °C
it has elongated by 1.2 mm. Calculate the linear expansion coefficient of the bar.
3. The length of an aluminum bar at 25 °C is 40 cm. Calculate what it should be at 0 °C.
length of an iron bar so that at 50 °C the length of the two bars is the same.
A 1 m long iron bar at a temperature of 0 °C is heated to a temperature T. Calculate
the temperature knowing that the length of the rod, at that temperature, is equal to 1.005 m.
( Iron= 12 10 6 K. l
5. How long should an aluminum metal thermometer be for an increase in
Does a temperature of 1 °C correspond to an expansion of 1 mm?
6. The diameter of a circular hole drilled in a zinc plate that is at a temperature of15 °C
The value is 50.0 cm. Calculate the diameter of the hole when the plate is at a temperature of 100 °C.
7. Nadia wants to fit a iron ring around a wooden wheel with a diameter of 60 cm. The diameter
the ring, however, is 3 mm smaller than that of the wheel. By how much does Nadia need to increase the
temperature of the ring to achieve this goal?
8. The two solids, A and B, are made of the same metal and have equal volume. Solid A has the shape
of a cube, while solid B has the shape of a thin rod with a square base of side 1 and length d
The temperature of the solid has increased by tADetermine how much it should increase the
Temperature of solid B to have, at maximum size, the same linear elongation as A.
(Assumin= 125 e tA= 150 °C.)
9. Calculate the volume of an aluminum parallelepiped at a temperature of 200 °C knowing that at 0 °C the
its sides measure: a = 1.000 m, b = 0.500 m, and c = 0.200 m.
10. Determine the coefficient of expansion of a solid substance that, at 0 °C, has a volume of 1.0000 m3
and at the temperature of200 °C a volume of 0.9898 m3.
11. A copper sphere has a radius of 10.00 cm at 0 °C. Calculate the percentage change. V/Vdel volume
of the sphere when its temperature has risen to 100 °C.
12. At a temperature of 0 °C, the sphere from the previous exercise passes through a ring with a radius of 10.05.
cm. When the sphere is heated to 100 °C, can it still pass through the ring?
13. What is the percentage change in volume of a solid for each degree of variation of the
temperature, if the metal of which the solid is made has a linear expansion coefficient ?
14. A liquid has a volume of 20.0 cm 3 when it is at 0 °C and 22.5 cm3when it is at 90 °C. What is the
its coefficient of cubic expansion?
15. A cylindrical tube is filled with mercury, which has a temperature of 0 °C, to a height of 10.0 cm.
How much does the height of the mercury column increase when heated to 100 °C? (Neglect the
variation of volume of the container and remember that the coefficient of expansion of mercury is equal
a 0.18 10-3K-1.)
A container, filled to the brim, holds a quantity of mercury equal to 200 cm.3when the
the temperature is 20 °C. What fraction of mercury escapes if the temperature is raised to 80 °C?
(Perform the calculation neglecting the volume change of the container and the meniscus formed by
mercury.)
17. Chiara measures the height of a column of mercury with an aluminum ruler. When the
environmental temperature valet1the ruler indicates a height1Neglecting the expansion of the
container holding mercury, what does the ruler indicate at ambient temperature?2?(Data
numerical:h1= 50 cm;t1= 10 °C2= 100 °C.)
HEAT PROPAGATION
1. A window, having a glass thickness of 0.60 cm, measures 75 cm. 42 cm. Calculate how much heat
flows per minute through this window, if the difference between the internal and external temperature
It is 15 °C.
2. Calculate how much heat flows in 1 second through a lead tile 15 cm long if the difference
The temperature difference between the two ends of the tile is 8.5°C. The cross-section of the
the tile is 12 cm2.
3. Assuming that your body temperature is 37.2 °C and that of the environment around you is
21.8 °C, determine how long it takes to consume the energy acquired by eating an ice cream of
306 Calorie. Assume that the emissivity of your body is 0.915 and its area is 1.22 m2(The constant of
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Stefan-Boltzmann can be expressed through the relationship = e 1dove 1= 5.67 10
W/(m2 K4the emission coefficient or emissivity
4. Two metal rods of equal length, one made of aluminum and the other of stainless steel, are
connected in parallel, at a temperature of 10 °C at one end and 108 °C at the other. Both rods
they have a diameter of 2.5 cm. Calculate their length so that the total heat flow that
crosses at 27.5 J / s.
5. Two metal rods, one made of copper and the other of lead, are connected in parallel at a temperature of
21 °C at one end and 112 °C at the other. Both rods are 0.750 m long and the rod of
Lead has a diameter of 2.60 cm. If the total heat flow through the rods is 33.2 J/s, what is the
diameter of the copper rod?
Two metal rods, one of aluminum and the other of copper, are connected in series at a temperature of 0.
°C on the aluminum side and 110 °C on the copper side. If the rods are of the same length, the
Will the temperature at the aluminum-copper junction be greater, lesser, or equal to 55 °C?
Justify your answer. Calculate the temperature at the aluminum-copper junction.
7. Two metal rods, one of lead and the other of copper, are connected in series at a temperature of 20
°C on the lead side and 80 °C on the copper side. The copper rod has a length of 0.750
m. Calculate how long the lead rod must be for the temperature of the lead junction
– beam is 50 °C.
8. Two identical objects are placed in a room where the temperature is 23°C. The temperature
the temperature of object 1 is 85 °C, while that of object 2 is 35 °C. What is the ratio of the power
emitted by object 1 and that radiated by object 2?
9. The external wall of a house is made of hollow bricks and has a thickness of 35 cm. Calculate
How thick should the wall be if it were made of wood, in order to provide the same insulation?
thermal. (Suppose that the thermal conductivity of the wood used is equal to 0.21 J s-1 m-1 K-1and that
The wall is instead 0.13 J s-1 m-1 K-1.)
10. Between the two flat and parallel faces of a panel with an area of 1 m230 cm away there is a
temperature difference of 10 °C. Calculate the amount of heat that passes through the wall in
one hour, if its conductivity coefficient is equal to 0.03 cal s-1 m-1 K-1.