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A steel beam has a length of 2.30 m, a width of 10.0 cm, and a height of 7.0 cm at a temperature of 20.0 oF. You wish to attach the centers of several beams to the roadway with the beams forming a straight line end-to-end. You wish to space the beams in such a way that they will not butt up against one another even when the temperature reaches as high as 120.0 oF. (a) What minimum spacing should you have between the centers of the beams if this is to be true? (b) What is the change in volume of a beam if the temperature changes as indicated above? Answers: (a) 2.3014 m (b) 29 cm3
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