Heat and Temperature Online Test 7th Science Lesson 7 Questions in English

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You shiver when it is cold outside and sweat when it is hot outside, but how can you measure those weather temperatures? Temperature is involved in many aspects of our daily lives, including our own bodies and health; the weather; and how hot the stove must be in order to cook food.

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The measurement of warmness or coldness of a substance is known as its temperature. Temperature is related to how fast the atoms within a substance are moving.

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There are three units which are used to measure the temperature:
Degree Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin.
Degree Celsius: Celsius is written as°C and read as degree. For example, 20°C; it is read as twenty degree Celsius. Celsius is called as Centigrade as well.
Fahrenheit: Fahrenheit is written as °F for example 25°F; it is read as twenty-five degree Fahrenheit.

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Kelvin is written as K. For example: 100K; it is read as hundred Kelvin. The SI unit of temperature is kelvin (K).

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The temperature of the object is well approximated with the kinetic energy of the substances. The high temperature means that the molecules within the object are moving at a faster rate. Molecules in any substance are very small to analyse and calculate its movement (Kinetic energy) in order to measure its temperature. You must use an indirect method to measure the kinetic energy of the molecules of a substance.

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In a thermometer, when liquid gets heat, it expands and when it is cooled down, it contracts. It is used to measure temperature. Like solid and liquid objects, the effect of heat is also observed on gaseous objects.

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Thermometer is the most common instrument to measure temperature. There are various kinds of thermometers. Some of them are like glass tubes which look thin and are filled with some kind of liquid.

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Mostly Alcohol and Mercury are used in thermometers as they remain in liquid form even with a change of temperature in them. A small change in the temperature causes change in volume of a liquid. We measure this temperature by measuring expansion of a liquid in thermometer.

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Properties of Mercury:-
 Its expansion is uniform. (For equal amounts of heat, it expands by equal lengths.)
 It is opaque and shining.
 It does not stick to the sides of the glass tube.
 It is a good conductor of heat.

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Mercury has a high boiling point (357°C) and a low freezing point (−39°C). Hence a wide range of temperatures can be measured using a mercury thermometer.

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Properties of Alcohol
 The freezing point of alcohol is less than −100°C. So, it can be used to measure very low temperatures
 Its expansion per degree Celsius rise in temperature is very large.
 It can be coloured brightly and hence is easily visible

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Clinical Thermometer are used to measure the temperature of a human body, at home, clinics and hospitals. All clinical thermometers have a kink that prevents the mercury from flowing back into the bulb when the thermometer is taken out of the patient’s mouth, so that the temperature can be noted conveniently. There are temperature scales on either side of the mercury thread, one in Celsius scale and the other in Fahrenheit scale. Since the Fahrenheit scale is more sensitive than the Celsius scale, body temperature is measured in F only. A clinical thermometer indicates temperatures from a minimum of 35°C or 94°F to a maximum of 42°C or 108°F.

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Precautions to be Followed While Using a Clinical Thermometer:
 The thermometer should be washed before and after use, preferably with an antiseptic solution.
 Jerk the thermometer a few times to bring the level of the mercury down.
 Before use, the mercury level should be below 35°C or 94°F.
 Do not hold the thermometer by its bulb
 Keep the mercury level along your line of sight and then take the reading.
 Handle the thermometer with care. If it hits against some hard object, it may break.
 Do not place the thermometer in a hot flame or in the hot sun.

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Precautions to be Followed While Using a Laboratory Thermometer:
 Do not tilt the thermometer while measuring the temperature. Place it upright
 Note the reading only when the bulb has been surrounded by the substance from all sides
 A laboratory thermometer has only the Celsius scale ranging from −10°C to 110°C.

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Laboratory thermometers are used to measure the temperature in school and other laboratories for scientific research. They are also used in the industry as they can measure temperatures higher than what clinical thermometers can record. The stem and the bulb of a lab thermometer are longer when compared to that of a clinical thermometer and there is no kink in the lab thermometer.

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In humans, the average internal temperature is 37°C (98.6°F), though it varies among individuals. However, no person always has exactly the same temperature at every moment of the day. Temperatures cycle regularly up and down through the day according to activities and external factors.

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Here is a lot of concern over the use of mercury in thermometers. Mercury is a toxic substance and is very difficult to dispose of if a thermometer break. These days, digital thermometers are available which do not use mercury. Instead, it has a sensor which can measure the heat coming out from the body directly and from that can measure the temperature of the body. Digital thermometers are mainly used to take the body temperature.

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Alex wanted to measure the temperature of hot milk using a clinical thermometer. His teacher stopped him from doing so. We are advised not to use a clinical thermometer for measuring the temperature of any object other than human body. A Clinical thermometer has small temperature range. The glass will crack/ burst due to excessive pressure created by expansion of mercury.

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The maximum and minimum temperatures of the previous day reported in weather reports are measured by a thermometer called the maximum – minimum thermometer

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Celsius is the common unit of measuring temperature, termed after Swedish astronomer, Anders Celsius in 1742, before that it was known as Centigrade as thermometers using this scale are calibrated from (Freezing point of water) 0°C to 100°C (boiling point of water). In Greek, ‘Centium’ means 100 and ‘Gradus’ means steps, both words make it centigrade and later Celsius.

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Fahrenheit is a Common unit to measure human body temperature. It is termed after the name of a German Physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. Freezing point of water is taken as 32°F and boiling point 212°F. Thermometers with Fahrenheit scale are calibrated from 32°F to 212°F.

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Kelvin scale is termed after Lord Kelvin. It is the SI unit of measuring temperature and written as K also known as absolute scale as it starts from absolute zero temperature.

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Most of the people in the world use the Celsius scale to measure temperature for day to day purpose.
The Kelvin scale has been designed in such a way, it is not only an absolute temperature scale, but
also 1°C change is equal to a 1K change. This makes the conversion from Celsius to absolute
temperature scale (Kelvin scale) easy, just the addition or subtraction of a constant 273.15.

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In United States they prefer to use the Fahrenheit scale. The problem is, converting Fahrenheit to
absolute scale (Kelvin) is not easy.

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The Rankine scale was named after the Glasgow University engineer and physicist Rankine, who
proposed it in 1859. It is an absolute temperature scale, and has the property of having a 1°R change
is equal to a 1°F change. Fahrenheit users who need to work with absolute temperature can be
converted to Rankine by R= F+ 459.67

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C = 5x 36/ 9 = 20°C
K = C + 273.15 = 20 + 273.15 = 293.15
Thus, the temperature in Celsius = 20 degree C and in Kelvin = 293.15 K

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