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Thermal Expansion and its types is considered one of the most asked concept.
24 Questions around this concept.
Coefficient of linear expansion of brass and steel rods are and . Lengths of brass and steel rods are and respectively. If ( -) is maintained same at all temperatures, which one of the following relations holds good?
Thermal expansion is the tendency of material to change its shape, area, and volume in response to a change in temperature. So, if there is any change in temperature every material has tendency to change its dimension and the amount of change depends on the type of materials.
Thermal expansion is minimum in case of solids but maximum in case of gases because the intermolecular force is maximum in solids but minimum in gases.
So, solids can expand in one dimension, two dimension and three dimension while liquids and gases usually suffers change in volume only.
Thermal expanision is basically of three types -
Let us take an specimen of length L0. There is two scenario, first is before heating and the second image shows after heating. So,
Now there is one relation between the , which can be written as -
Hence, for the same rise in temperature -
Percentage change in area = 2 times the percentage change in length.
Percentage change in volume = 3 times the percentage change in length.
(1) Bi-metallic strip : When two strips of equal lengths but of different materials (such that they have different value of coefficient of linear expansion) when join together, it is called “bi-metallic strip”, and it can be used in thermostat to break or make electrical contact. Bi-metallic strip has the characteristic property of bending on heating. This is due to unequal linear expansion of the two metal. The strip will bend with metal of greater on outer side.
The above figure shows the condition before and after heating the bi-metallic strip.
(2) Effect of temperature on the time period of a simple pendulum : Let us suppose a pendulum clock keeps proper time at temperature . If the temperature is increased to then due to linear expansion, length of pendulum and from the formula, we knows that the time period of simple pendulum is directly proportional to the square root of length of the pendulum hence its time period will increase.
Fractional change in time period
(i) In summer, the temperature will rise and due to this there will be increment in its time period. A pendulum clock becomes
slow and will lose time.
Loss of time in a time period is given by -
(ii) Time lost by the clock in a day -
(Time in one complete day on earth = 86400 seconds)
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