Answer to Question #296417 in Mechanics | Relativity for Teejay

Question

The length of the mercury column in a non-calibrated mercury thermometer is 5.5 cm

when its bulb is immersed in melting ice and 24.5 cm when the bulb is in the steam above

boiling water at sea level.

Determine the:

i. temperature for a length of 14 cm

ii. length for a temperature of 75 ℃

iii. length that would correspond to a temperature of – 6 ℃

Answer 1

$5.5\to 0°,$

$24.5\to 100°,$

1. 44.7°,

2. 19.8 cm,

3. 4.4 cm.