Fractional volume change via small temperature change¶
Thermal expansion is the phenomenon when a body increases its dimensions in response to an increase in temperature. For small temperature changes, the expansion coefficient is approximately constant and the fractional change in the body’s volume is proportional to the change in the body’s temperature.
Conditions:
The temperature change \(\Delta T\) is small enough for the expansion coefficient \(\alpha_V\) to be constant.
Links:
- fractional_volume_change¶
Change \(\Delta V\) in the body’s volume divided by its initial volume \(V\).
- Symbol:
e_V- Latex:
\(e_V\)
- volumetric_expansion_coefficient¶
Volumetric coefficient of thermal expansion.
- Symbol:
alpha_V- Latex:
\(\alpha_V\)
- temperature_change¶
Change in body’s temperature.
- Symbol:
dT- Latex:
\(\Delta T\)
- law¶
e_V = alpha_V * dT- Latex:
- \[e_V = \alpha_V \, \Delta T\]