When the hot water in a certain upstairs bathroom is

Chapter 10, Problem 10.22

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When the hot water in a certain upstairs bathroom is turned on, a series of 18 ticks is heard as the copper hot-water pipe slowly heats up and increases in length. The pipe runs vertically from the hot-water heater in the basement, through a hole in the floor 5.0 m above the water heater. The ticks are caused by the pipe sticking in the hole in the oor until the tension in the expanding pipe is great enough to unstick the pipe, enabling it to jump a short distance through the hole. If the hotwater temperature is 46C and room temperature is 20C, determine (a) the distance the pipe moves with each tick and (b) the force required to unstick the pipe if the cross-sectional area of the copper in the pipe is 3.55 105 m2.

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