The gas is in a rigid container: this means that its volume remains constant. Therefore, we can use Gay-Lussac law, which states that for a gas at constant volume, the pressure is directly proportional to the temperature. The law can be written as follows:

Where P1=5 atm is the initial pressure, T1=254.5 K is the initial temperature, P2 is the new pressure and T2=101.8 K is the new temperature. Re-arranging the equation and using the data of the problem, we can find P2:

So, the new pressure is 2 atm.
Answer: The correct explanation is 2.
Explanation: The warm air is less dense (it expands) and thus it is lighter than the cold air so it will rise up to the floor. Therefore, when you place the heater on the floor it will warm the cold air which would then rise and be replaced by more cold air which would again get warm and rise and so on until the room is heated. This means that the correct explanation is 2.
On the other hand, if you put the heater at the ceiling, it will warm the cold air near the ceiling which would stay up there (it is lighter than the cold air under it). This means that the only way for the heat to spread from this ceiling level warm air to the lower levels is via conduction which is slow.
Answer:
It's 1.0000042 times longer in summer than in winter. It represents a 1.6 centimeters difference between seasons.
Explanation:
The linear coefficient of thermal expansion for steel is about
. From the equation of linear thermal expansion, we have:

Taking the winter day as the initial, and the summer day as the final, we can take the relationship between them:
![L_{summer}=L_{winter}[1+(1.2*10^{-7}\°C^{-1})(30\°C+5\°C)]\\\\L_{summer}=(1.0000042)L_{winter}](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=L_%7Bsummer%7D%3DL_%7Bwinter%7D%5B1%2B%281.2%2A10%5E%7B-7%7D%5C%C2%B0C%5E%7B-1%7D%29%2830%5C%C2%B0C%2B5%5C%C2%B0C%29%5D%5C%5C%5C%5CL_%7Bsummer%7D%3D%281.0000042%29L_%7Bwinter%7D)
It means that the bridge is 1.0000042 times longer in summer than in winter. If we multiply it by the length of the bridge, we obtain that the difference is of about 1.6 centimeters between the two seasons.
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