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Question
If you heat a circular disk with a hole, what change do you expect in the diameter of the hole? Remember that the effect of heating increases the separation between any pair of particles.
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Solution
- If I heat a circular disk with a hole the diameter of the hole will increase.
- Because thermal expansion takes place when we heat the disk.
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