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ashley

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Consider an aluminum rod encircling the Earth (radius 6378. km). If the linear thermal expansion coefficient of the aluminum is 24.  10-6 (C)-1,
 
  and if the temperature of the rod increases by 1.0 C, how high off the ground would the expanded ring be (assuming uniform space all around)?

Question 2

Climate models which ignore human activity
 
  A) completely fail to match real climate data
  B) match real climate data quite well
  C) match real climate data perfectly
  D) match real climate data, but only poorly


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Ahernandez18

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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

0.15 km

Answer to Question 2

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ashley

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Reply 2 on: Jul 27, 2018
Gracias!

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Excellent

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