ED564 SCI-M 216L THERMODYNAMICS (LABORATORY)

1st Semester, 2022-2023

Name: Edicto, Beatrice Caroline S. Instructor: Engr. Juanita Z. Sayson

BSED- SCIENCE 2- B2 WED 9:00 – 12:00 NN Date: November 09, 2022

ACTIVITY #2

When a solid body is heated, it expands linear in length. Linear expansion is

influenced by the kind of solid, the length of an object, and the change of temperature.
Most substances expand and contract when heated and cooled, respectively. The
material lengthens as the substance's temperature rises. The initial length, the
temperature change, and the type of material being heated or cooled all affect how
much the length changes.
Linear Expansion is expressed in:
ΔL = αLΔT
Where: ∆L – linear expansion (+, lengthened)
linear contraction (-, shortened)
Lo – original/given length
Ln – new/final length
α – coefficient of linear expansion
ΔT- temperature change
Ti – initial temperature
Tf – final temperature
 A solid's expansion is typically controlled by a linear expansion coefficient,
whereas a liquid or gas's expansion is typically controlled by a volume expansion
coefficient. In general, thermal expansion is the increase in volume of a material as its
temperature rises. This phenomenon is typically expressed as a fractional change in
length or volume per unit temperature change.
In terms of the experiment, this implies that a change in one particular dimension,
in this case length, will correspond to a change in the materials' temperature. The size
of a material's coefficient of linear expansion determines how much it expands; the
higher the coefficient, the larger the expansion, hence it may be argued that these two
values are inversely connected. Copper and aluminum endure fewer length variations,
per the data collected. As a result, we might infer that an object with a higher coefficient
of linear expansion will undergo a greater change in length, which lends credence to the
earlier assertion I stated above.
In addition to the coefficient of linear expansion, other factors that affect how
much a material changes in length during thermal expansion include the initial length of
the body and variations in temperature. Each of these three parameters directly affects
how long the material changes, so if their values increase, the length of the material will
change in the same places.