# Thermodynamics in mercury filled tube

Please provide a solution for this problem.

@Damir @Miras помните задачу 1.6 термодинамики Овчинкина?)) Попробуйте решить эту тогда)

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So this problem is taken from Овчинкина?

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Uh, I remember the second part of this problem.
Firsly, we should find a central mass of metal tube.

L=l\left(1- \frac{x}{2} \right)

We know that wen we increase the temperature of metal tube, it’s own lengh and mercury volume are increasing, but we need chose a x, when it does not depend to temperature. It takes this form:

\frac{dL}{dl}=0

Be careful, because we need only find how length of mercury changes depending on length of metal tube. In other words \displaystyle\frac{dx}{dl} We don’t need to find single expression for temperature, because l replaces the effect of temperature (If someone understands me). This is like a function .

\frac{d(1 \cdot l)}{dl}-\frac{1}{2}\frac{d(l \cdot x)}{dl}=1-\frac{x}{2}-l\frac{dx}{dl}=0

Phew, I hope that, I wrote correctly.
So, we considered all phisics there))
Now, let’s an increase of mercury’s volume and metal’s length. Since the increase in the pipe is equilateral, the increase is three times more. So:

l_1=l(1+\beta T)\\ V_1=V(1+3\beta T)\\ v_1=v(1+ \alpha T)\\

We know that x is the part of metal tube with mersure and we can find a connertion between their volumes. It is enough to find x.

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What value of x are you getting?

x=0.125
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1. 1/8
2. 0.131 or 0.963
3. Some long algebraic expression