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A hole of diameter 5 cm is drilled in a metal sheet at 30 °C. The linear expansion of metal is 2×10-5 K-1. The diameter of the hole when the temperature is raised to 230 °C, is equal to

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Important Questions on Thermal Properties of Matter

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A steel rod at 25°C is observed to be 1 m long when measured by another metal scale which is correct at 0°C. The exact length of steel rod at 0°C is αsteel=12×10-6 °C-1, αmetal=20×10-6 °C-1
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Two metal plates P and Q of same material are arranged as shown in the figure. If both the plates are uniformly heated through same range of temperature, then

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A cylinder has a piston at temperature of 30°C. There is all round clearance of 0.08 mm between the piston and cylinder wall if internal diameter of the cylinder is 15 cm. What is the temperature at which piston will fit into the cylinder exactly? αp=1.6×10-5/C and αc=1.2×10-5/C
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Consider two thermometers, T1 and T2 of equal length which can be used to measure temperature over the range θ1 to θ2. T1, contains mercury as a thermometric liquid while T2 contains bromine. The volumes of the two liquids are the same at the temperature, θ1. The volumetric coefficients of expansion of mercury and bromine are 18×10-5 K-1 and 108×10-5 K-1, respectively. The increase in the length of each liquid is the same for the same increase in temperature. If the diameters of the capillary tubes of the two thermometers are d1 and d2 respectively, then the ratio d1:d2 would be closest to:
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If two rods of lengths L and 2L, having coefficients of linear expansion α and 2α respectively are connected end-to-end, then find the average coefficient of linear expansion of the composite rod.
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The area measured on the surface of a solid body of coefficient of linear expansion α is A0 at some initial temperature. If the temperature changes by ΔT, the approximate change in area, ΔA is
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A leak proof cylinder of length 1 m, made of a metal which has very low coefficient of expansion is floating vertically in water at 0 oC such that its height above the water surface is 20 cm. When the temperature of water is increased to 4 oC, the height of the cylinder above the water surface becomes 21 cm. The density of water at T = 4 oC, relative to the density at T = 0 oC is close to:
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A glass vessel of volume V0 is completely filled with a liquid and its temperature is raised by ΔT. What volume of the liquid will flow over, if the coefficient of linear expansion of glass is αg and coefficient of volume expansion of the liquid is γL
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The ratio of linear expansivity to the co-efficient of a real expansion of a rectangular sheet of a solid is
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An iron ring of radius 2.1 m is to be fitted on top of the rim of a wheel of radius 2.121 m. The coefficient of volume expansion for iron is 3.6×10-5 K-1. By approximately how much should the temperature of the iron ring be increased so that it fits the rim of the wheel?
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Match the following?

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(a) Ratio of change in time period of a simple pendulum with temperature to its original time period (i) αΔT
(b) Ratio of the value of a length to its scale reading (ii) T
(c) Reciprocal of coefficient of volume expansion for an ideal gas of constant pressure (iii) (1+αΔT)
(d) FYA= (iv) 12αΔT
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A non-isotropic solid metal cube has coefficients of linear expansion as: 5× 10 5 / o C along the x-axis and 5× 10 6 / o C along the y and the z-axis. If the coefficient of volume expansion of the solid is C× 10 6 / o C , then the value of C is _____________
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For a solid, how many types of thermal expansion coefficients are there?
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When the temperature of a metal wire is increased from 0ºC to 10ºC, its length increases by 0.02%.The percentage change in its mass density will be closed to:

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A compressive force, F is applied at the two ends of a long thin steel rod. It is heated, simultaneously, such that its temperature increases by ΔT. The net change in its length is zero. Let l be the length of the rod, A its area of cross-section, Y its Young's modulus, and α its coefficient of linear expansion. Then, F is equal to:
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The ends Q and R of two thin wires, PQ and RS, are soldered (joined) together. Initially each of the wires has a length of 1 m at 10°C. Now the end P is maintained at 10°C, while the end S is heated and maintained at 400°C. The system is thermally insulated from its surroundings. If the thermal conductivity of wire PQ is twice that of the wire RS and the coefficient of linear thermal expansion of PQ is 1.2×10-5 K-1, the change in length of the wire PQ is