Imagine people breathing on the length of a 40,000-km steel pipe that forms a ring to fit snugly entirely around the circumference of Earth so as to raise its temperature by 1°C. The pipe gets longer—and is no longer snug. How high does it then stand above ground level? Show that the answer is an astounding 70 m higher! (To simplify, consider only the expansion of its radial distance from the center of Earth, and apply the geometry formula that relates circumference C and radius r —that is, C = 27 πr )
Imagine people breathing on the length of a 40,000-km steel pipe that forms a ring to fit snugly entirely around the circumference of Earth so as to raise its temperature by 1°C. The pipe gets longer—and is no longer snug. How high does it then stand above ground level? Show that the answer is an astounding 70 m higher! (To simplify, consider only the expansion of its radial distance from the center of Earth, and apply the geometry formula that relates circumference C and radius r —that is, C = 27 πr )
Imagine people breathing on the length of a 40,000-km steel pipe that forms a ring to fit snugly entirely around the circumference of Earth so as to raise its temperature by 1°C. The pipe gets longer—and is no longer snug. How high does it then stand above ground level? Show that the answer is an astounding 70 m higher! (To simplify, consider only the expansion of its radial distance from the center of Earth, and apply the geometry formula that relates circumference C and radius r—that is, C = 27πr)
Imagine a 40,000-km steel pipe that forms a ring to fit snugly entirely around the circumference of Earth. Suppose that people along its length breathe on it so as to raise its temperature by 1°C. The pipe gets longer—and is also no longer snug. How high does it stand above ground level? Show that the answer is an astounding 70 m higher! (To simplify, consider only the expansion of its radial distance from the center of Earth, and apply the geometry formula that relates circumference
Imagine a swimming pool 25 m long and 15 m wide. If the water is exactly 2 m deep when the water temperature is 20 ° C, how deep will the water be if the temperature increases to 21 ° C?
Suppose that the Earth wore a snug steel belt around its equator (r = 6378 km). If everyone on Earth breathed on this steel belt simultaneously so that the belt's temperature increased by 2°C, how high off of the Earth would the belt be lifted?
Hint: the coefficient of linear expansion of steel is 0.000012
Convert your answer from km to feet.
1 km = 1000 m
1 meter = 3.28 feet
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