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The length, L, of a rod increases with increasing temperature. Experiments have shown that in a relatively wide temperature range the linear expansion, ΔL, is proportional to the increase in temperature, ΔT. The proportionality constant is called the coefficient of linear expansion, α L . The observations can be summarized in
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Hummel, R.E. (2011). Thermal Expansion. In: Electronic Properties of Materials. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8164-6_22
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