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 Expansion and contraction
• What will happen when
solids gain or lose heat?
o After the ball gains heat, it
became bigger and cannot
pass through the ring.
o The increase in size is
because of heat gain and
is called expansion.

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 Expansion and contraction
• What will happen when
solids gain or lose heat?
o After the ball has cooled
down and lost heat, it
becomes smaller.
o It can now pass through the
ring.
o The decrease in size is
because of heat loss and is
called contraction.

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 Expansion and contraction
• What will happen when
liquids gain or lose heat?
o When the flask is placed in
a basin of hot water, the
water level will rise up the water level
after
glass tube. expansion
o This shows that the water original
in the flask has gained water level
heat and expanded.

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 Expansion and contraction
• What will happen when
liquids gain or lose heat?
o When the flask is placed in
a basin of ice water, the original
water level in the glass water level
water level
after
tube will fall. contraction
o This shows that the water
in the flask has lost heat
and contracted.

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 Expansion and contraction
• What will happen when
gases gain or lose heat?
o When the boiling tube is
placed in a basin of hot
water, the air in the boiling
tube gains heat. red ink
o The air expands and pushes level after
original
against the red ink. expansion
red ink
of air
o The red ink level moves up level
the glass tube.

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 Expansion and contraction
• What will happen when
gases gain or lose heat?
o When the boiling tube is
placed in a basin of ice
water, the air in the boiling
tube loses heat.
o The air contracts. original
o As a result, the red ink red ink
level moves down the level
glass tube. red ink level
after
contraction
of air
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Expansion and contraction

Gases, liquids and solids

What have you
expand when they are
learnt from the
heated and contract
experiments?
when they are cooled.

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 Expansion and contraction in
our daily lives
• When it gets hot,
concrete slabs on the
pavement expand.
• The gaps in-between
the concrete slabs
allow space for
expansion.

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 Expansion and contraction in
our daily lives
• The gaps in-between
the bridge allow space
for expansion.

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 Expansion of a gas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ZPErStqSSMk

Expansion on a railway track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RZ-sYY_vZC4