Conceptual Physical Science (6th Edition)
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Chapter 6, Problem 43TAS
Imagine people breathing on the length of a 40,000-km steel pipe that forms a ring to fit snugly entirely around the circumference of Earth so as to raise its temperature by 1°C. The pipe gets longer—and is no longer snug. How high does it then stand above ground level? Show that the answer is an astounding 70 m higher! (To simplify, consider only the expansion of its radial distance from the center of Earth, and apply the geometry formula that relates circumference C and radius r—that is, C = 27πr)
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