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CHAPTER 17:
TEMPERATURE AND HEAT
Meeting: 3
Thermal Expansion
  Expansion due to increase in temperature

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Thermal Expansion: Linear
  Within a sufficiently small temperature interval:

coefficient of linear expansion


Thermal Expansion: Microscopic View
Thermal Expansion
Thermal Expansion: Volume

coefficient of volume expansion


Thermal Expansion: Water
  Expands at low T

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Thermal Stress
  Tensile (contraction) or compressive (expansion)
stress to account for changes in temperature.

Stress
Recall:
(Young’s
modulus)
Thermal Stress

Thermal Stress:

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