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1.6 Exercise 38

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A mercury thermometer still in use for meteorology has a bulb with a volume of 0.780cm30.780 \text{cm}^{3} and a tube for the mercury to expand into of inside diameter 0.130 mm. (a) Neglecting the thermal expansion of the glass, what is the spacing between marks 1°C1 ° \text{C} apart? (b) If the thermometer is made of ordinary glass (not a good idea), what is the spacing?

OpenStax University Physics Volume 2, 1.6 Mechanisms of Heat Transfer, exercise 38

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