Conceptual Physics: The High School Physics Program
Conceptual Physics: The High School Physics Program
9th Edition
ISBN: 9780133647495
Author: Paul G. Hewitt
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 21, Problem 50A

Suppose that water is used in a thermometer instead of mercury. If the temperature is at 4 ° C and then changes, why can’t the thermometer indicate whether the temperature is rising or falling?

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To explain: The reason for not indicating the state of temperature by a thermometer.

Answer to Problem 50A

Thermometer does not indicate the state of temperature by a thermometer because at this temperature, cooling or heating is indeterminate.

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Introduction:

Water has a high freezing point as compared to Mercury.

If a water is in the thermometer, then as soon as it reaches 0°C . It will tend to freeze the thermometer. Thus, computing temperature falling or rising at 4°C is indeterminate.

Conclusion:

Thus, it is indeterminate if temperature rising or falling at water 4°C .

Chapter 21 Solutions

Conceptual Physics: The High School Physics Program

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