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Consider a ring with a gap in it. When the ring is heated, the gap becomes

A) wider.
B) narrower.
Cactually both.
D) neither.

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Answer:

A) wider.

Step-by-step explanation:

As the ring is heated, slowly due to conduction, it is heated uniformly throughout, and the gap becomes wider, as the whole of the ring expands.

User Shlomi Komemi
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