Consider a mercury-in-glass thermometer. Assume that the cross section of the capillary is constant at A and the V is the volume of the bulb of mercury at 0.00ºC. Suppose that the mercury column in the capillary at a temperature T, in ºC, isThat is, proportional to the temperature, where β is the coefficient of volume expansion of mercury and α is the coefficient of linear expansion of glass.
Radhika Batra , 9 Years ago
Grade 11