Learn about the increase or decrease of size of an object due to thermal expansion in this college textbook section. Understand how to calculate linear and volume expansion of an object as well as thermal stress. Section also includes problems and questions for the students to answer to ensure understanding. Book can be downloaded.

Concepts

thermal expansion

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Additional Tags

coefficient of linear expansion, coefficient of volume expansion, thermal stress, openstax: college physics: thermal expansion of solids and liquids

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)