At the bottom of an old mercury-in-glass thermometer is a 50-mm3 reservoir filled with mercury. When the thermometer was
Posted: Mon May 16, 2022 6:52 pm
At the bottom of an old mercury-in-glass thermometer is
a 50-mm3 reservoir filled with mercury. When
the thermometer was placed under your tongue, the warmed mercury
would expand into a very narrow cylindrical channel, called a
capillary, whose radius was 1.9 ×
10-2 mm. Marks were placed along the capillary that
indicated the temperature. Ignore the thermal expansion of the
glass and determine how far (in mm) the mercury would expand into
the capillary when the temperature changed by 1.0 C°.
a 50-mm3 reservoir filled with mercury. When
the thermometer was placed under your tongue, the warmed mercury
would expand into a very narrow cylindrical channel, called a
capillary, whose radius was 1.9 ×
10-2 mm. Marks were placed along the capillary that
indicated the temperature. Ignore the thermal expansion of the
glass and determine how far (in mm) the mercury would expand into
the capillary when the temperature changed by 1.0 C°.