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The document contains physics problems and explanations for Grade 9 and Grade 11 students, covering topics such as heat, temperature, thermal expansion, and material properties like ductility and Young's modulus. It includes calculations related to thermal energy, specific heat capacity, stress, strain, and equilibrium in various scenarios. The problems require applying formulas and concepts to determine values such as temperature changes, lengths, and forces.

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The document contains physics problems and explanations for Grade 9 and Grade 11 students, covering topics such as heat, temperature, thermal expansion, and material properties like ductility and Young's modulus. It includes calculations related to thermal energy, specific heat capacity, stress, strain, and equilibrium in various scenarios. The problems require applying formulas and concepts to determine values such as temperature changes, lengths, and forces.

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Grade 9

1. Explain the following terms


a. Heat
b. Temperature
c. Heat conductor
d. Heat insulator
e. Thermal expansion
f. Thermal contact and thermal equilibrium
g. Types of thermometer and there thermometric property
2. Fill out the table below with the equivalent temperature scale.
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C F K
89
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405
3. A 10,000 meter steel railroad track with a coefficient of linear expansion of 12 x 10 -6 per
degree Celsius changes temperature from 18°C to 38°C. By how many meters will the
railroad tracks expand?
4. A metal bar changes in length by 1 meter with a 150 degree Celsius change in
temperature. It’s coefficient of linear expansion is 25 x 10-6 per degree Celsius. What is
the metal bar’s original length?
5. The coefficient of linear expansion of lead is 2.9 x 10-6 K -1 . What change in temperature
will
6. cause a 5-m long lead bar to change in length by 3.0 mm?
7. A 15.75-g piece of iron absorbs 1086.75 joules of heat energy, and its temperature
changes from 25°C to 175°C.Calculate the specific heat capacity of iron.
8. How many joules of heat are needed to raise the temperature of 10.0 g of aluminum
from 22°C to 55°C, if the specific heat of aluminum is 0.90 J/g°C
9. What mass of water will change its temperature by 30C when 525 J of heat is added to
it?
10. A 0.3 g piece of copper is heated and fashioned into a bracelet. The amount of energy
transferred by heat to the copper is 66,300 J. If the specific heat of copper is 390 J/g0C,
what is the change of the copper's temperature?

Grade 11
1. Explain the following terms
a. Ductility
b. Young’s modulus
c. Yield strength
d. Ultimate tensile strength
e. Graph of stress against strain
f. Types of equilibrium
2. A metal wire 75.0 cm long and 0.130 cm in diameter stretches 0.0350 cm when a load of 8.00 kg is
hung on its end. Find
a. the stress
b. the strain
c. the Young's modulus for the material of the wire
3. A solid cylindrical steel column is 4.0 m long and 9.0 cm in diameter. What will be its decrease in
length when carrying a load of 80 000 kg? Y 1.9 x 10" Pa.
4. A copper rod (alpha = 1.7 x 10 - 5 C - 1) is 20 cm longer than an aluminum rod (a = 2.20 x 10 -5/°C the
copper rod be if the difference in their lengths is to be independent of temperatur

5. A 3.0 m-long bamboo fishing rod of negligible 6. a) A 4.0 m-long uniform beam to the right weighs 500. N and
mass is pivoted at one end, and held in is supported by a cable as shown. What is the tension in that
equilibrium by a 21 N-horizontal force while a cable?
fish pulls on a fish line attached to the rod as
shown below. How much force does the fish exert
on the rod? Assume this force is perpendicular to
the
rod
7. Examine the diagram. Given that the 800 N 8. For the diagram, what upward force F2 is required to keep
uniform beam has a length of 4.2 m and the the beam in both static and rotational equilibrium?
tension T in the support wire is 1700 N,
determine the unknown angle θ

9. Examine the diagram to the right. The uniform 1.2 10. The mobile shown in Fig. hangs at equilibrium. It consists of
x 105 N beam has one cable attached 22 m from objects held by vertical strings. Object 3 weighs 1.40 N, while
the wall, and another at 50 m from the wall. If each of the identical uniform horizontal bars weighs 0.50 N.
cable T1 has a tension of 6.5 x 104 N, what is the Find (a) the weights of objects 1 and 2, and (b) the tension in
tension in the other cable T2? the upper string.

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