Part 29 (1/2)

d. Iron tires are heated, slipped on to wagon wheels and then cooled, the contraction on cooling setting them tightly in place.

e. Metallic thermometers depend upon the movement due to the expansion of a coiled strip of metal which turns a pointer on the dial of the instrument. (See Fig. 129.)

f. The wires that are fused into gla.s.s in incandescent light bulbs must have the same coefficient of expansion as the gla.s.s. Platinum has therefore been used for this purpose. (See table above.)

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 129.--Metallic thermometer.]

Important Topics

1. Expansion of Liquids; peculiarities. Anomalous expansion of water and its results.

2. Expansion of solids; peculiarities, applications.

3. Coefficient of linear expansion.

4. Coefficient of cubical expansion.

Exercises

1. The gas within a partly inflated balloon has a volume of 1000 cu. ft.

at a pressure of 74 cm., and a temperature of 15C. What will be the volume of the gas when its pressure is 37 cm. and the temperature is -17C.?

2. A man taking a full breath on the top of a mountain fourteen thousand feet high inhales 4 liters of air, the pressure being 40 cm. What volume would this same ma.s.s of air have in a place 600 ft. above sea-level when the barometer reads 75 cm. and the temperature is the same as on the mountain top?

3. If the coefficient of linear expansion of iron is 0.000012 per degree C., how much will an iron bridge 1000 ft. long change in length in warming from -20C. on a winter day to 30C. upon a summer day.

4. What are some of the results that would follow in freezing weather if water continually contracted on being cooled to zero instead of beginning to expand when cooled below 4C.?

5. Mention two instances that you have noticed of expansion occurring when a body is heated?

6. Compare the density of air at 30C. with that at 10C. at the same pressure. If both are present in a room, where will each be found? Why?

7. Compare the density of water at 40C. with that at 10C. If water at the two temperatures are in a tank, where will each be found? Why?

8. If water at 0C. and at 4C. are both in a tank, where will each be found? Why?

9. How much heat will be required to raise the temperature of a cubic foot of water 10F.?

10. How much heat will be required to raise the temperature of 4 liters of water 25C.?

11. How much longer would the cables of the Brooklyn suspension bridge be on a summer's day when the temperature is 30C. than in winter at -20C., the length of cable between the supports being about 1600 ft.

12. If 25 liters of air at -23C. is warmed to 77C. under constant pressure, what will be the resulting volume of air? Explain.

13. White pig iron melts at about 2000F. Express this temperature upon the centigrade and absolute scales.

14. If 200 ccm. of air at 76 cm. pressure and 27C. temperature be heated to 127C. at a pressure of 38 cm. what will be the resulting volume?