Question

3 An un calibrated mercury in glass thermometer immersed in melting ice. The length of the mercury thread is 25 mm when the thermometer immersed in steam from pure water boiling under a pressure of 1 atmosphere the length of the thread is 200 mm what is the temperature in degree centigrade when the length of the thread is 95mm.​

Answer 1

25 mm = 0 deg C

200 mm = 100 deg C

200 - 25 = 175 = change in thread per 100 deg C

95 - 25 = 70 mm - change in thread from 0 deg C

70 / 175 * 100 = 40 deg C final temperature at 95 mm