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Secondary – 1

Parents’ Guide
Physics
Chapter - 19 (Expansion of solids, liquids and gases)
I. Read highlighted word, sentences and key points from Physics Text
Book. [Chapter – 19]

II. Study these lessons:


• Use of expansion
• Precautions against expansion
• Bimetallic strip
• Linear expansivity
• Unusual expansion of water

III. Words to learn


• Bimetallic strip
Bimetallic strip, thermostat

• Linear expansivity
Linear expansion, linear expansivity

IV. Definition
1. Expansion
Expansion is the general increase in the volume of a material as
its temperature is increased.

2. Linear expansivity
The linear expansivity α of a substance is the increase in length of
1 m for a 1֯C rise in temperature.

V. Please let him or her practice questions from Text Book and
exercises from Work Book.

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