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1.1 Temperature and Thermometers: Tells How Hot Something Is Measures Temperature
1.1 Temperature and Thermometers: Tells How Hot Something Is Measures Temperature
very extremely
cool hot
hot hot
Liquid-in-glass thermometer
Liquid-in-glass thermometer
Liquid-in-glass thermometer
Thermal expansion
100 °C
0 °C
100
divisions
100 °C
• Each division is 1 °C
25 °C
Heat and Gases 16
Temperature and Heat Transfer 1
T / °C
0 100
At ice pt, At steam pt,
ℓ = 5 cm ℓ = 25 cm
ℓ / cm
25
ℓ′
′1 ′
5 ℓ = 𝑇 +5
5
T / °C
0 T′ 100
standard
temperature resistance
thermometer T / °C R/Ω
to resistance
meter 0 51.0
20 54.3
40 56.9
60 60.8
80 63.1
100 66.0
• Looking up temperature (R → T)
62
55.5
73
30 °C
°C
Linear relation
nickel
linear non-linear T / °C
0
300
ΔT
– proportion 90
– calibration graph
(a)
ℓ / cm
22
From 5 °C to 15 °C,
increase in length = Δℓ
18
ℓ
Δℓ From 5 °C to 95 °C,
4
10 increase in length = 18 cm
90
θ / °C
5 15 95
(a)
ℓ / cm
By proportion
22
18
Δℓ + 4 ∴ Δℓ= 2 cm
Δℓ
4
10
At 15 °C,
90
θ / °C
ℓ = 2 + 4 = 6 cm
5 15 95
(b)
ℓ / cm
22
From 5 °C to θ °C,
13 increase in length = 9 cm
18
9
From 5 °C to 95 °C,
4
Δθ increase in length = 18 cm
90
θ / °C
5 θ 95
(b)
ℓ / cm
By proportion
22
13
18
9 ∴ Δθ = 45 °C
4
Δθ
At 13 cm,
90
θ / °C
θ = 45 + 5 = 50 °C
5 Δθ + 5 95
18 18
9
Δℓ
10 Δθ
90 90
18 18
Δℓ Δℓ
10 10
90 90
θ / °C
(b) actual