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What do you mean by anomalous expansion of water? Explain with a graph, how the volume of a fixed mass of water changes with the change of temperature between 1°C and 20°C?

Important Questions on Thermal Expansion

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11th West Bengal Board
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 16 - Thermal Expansion>EXERCISE>Q 12
How would you demonstrate the anomalous expansion of water?
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11th West Bengal Board
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 16 - Thermal Expansion>EXERCISE>Q 13
What is difference between real and apparent expansion of a liquid? Establish the relationship between the co-efficients of those expansions. Discuss the effect of anomalous expansion of water on marine life.
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11th West Bengal Board
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 16 - Thermal Expansion>EXERCISE>Q 14
Describe experiments to show that gases expand when heated. What are gas laws?
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11th West Bengal Board
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 16 - Thermal Expansion>EXERCISE>Q 15
Define volume co-efficient and pressure co-efficient of expansion of gas. Show that in the case of a perfect gas, these two co-efficients of expansion are equal.
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11th West Bengal Board
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 16 - Thermal Expansion>EXERCISE>Q 16
From Boyle's and Charles' law deduce the equation of state of a perfect gas. What is universal gas constant? What is its value?
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11th West Bengal Board
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 16 - Thermal Expansion>EXERCISE>Q 1
The temperature of a metal rod, 2.3 m long is increased from 0°C to 100°C and the expansion in length of the rod was 2.75 mm. Calculate the co-efficient of linear expansion of the metal.
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11th West Bengal Board
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 16 - Thermal Expansion>EXERCISE>Q 2
An iron rod and a zinc rod are respectively 25.55 cm and 25.5 cm at 0°C. At what temperature will they be exactly equal in length? α for iron=0.00001 and α for zinc=0.00003°C-1.
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11th West Bengal Board
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 16 - Thermal Expansion>EXERCISE>Q 3
A rectangular block of copper 8 cm×5 cm×1 cm at 0°C Is heated to 800°C. Calculate the increase in volume. Co-effn, of linear expansion of copper=0.16×10-4 per °C.