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How could I demonstrate that volume variation of a solid body(or liquid), when absorbing a given quantity of heat, doesn't depend on primary volume?

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Posted by tufa on Monday June 22, 2009 at 3:54 AM and tagged with heat, liquid, science, solid, volume.


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  1. giorgiana1976
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    Q=m*c*deltaT=ro0*V0*c*deltaT

    deltaV=V0*gama*Q/(ro0*V0*c)=gama*Q/(ro0*c)

    As you can easily see, the last expression, doesn't depend on V0(initial volume, this one is not present in the final expression).

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    Posted by giorgiana1976 on Tuesday June 23, 2009 at 12:11 PM