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The steel bed of a suspension bridge is 310 m long at 23°C. If the extremes of temperature to which it might be exposed are to how much will it contract and expand?

Principles of Physics: A Calculus-Based Text

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Author:Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett

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Chapter16: Temperature And The Kinetic Theory Of Gases

Section: Chapter Questions

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