Question: Direction: Read. analyze and solve the following word problems. 1. Convert the following Celsius temperatures to Fahrenheit: (a) -62.8C, the lowest temperature ever recorded in

 Direction: Read. analyze and solve the following word problems. 1. Convert

Direction: Read. analyze and solve the following word problems. 1. Convert the following Celsius temperatures to Fahrenheit: (a) -62.8C, the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America; (b) 567C, the highest temperature ever recorded in the United States; (c) 311C, the highest average annual temperature. 2. Fifteen months after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, scientists recorded a drop in the average global temperature of 0.6\"C. What is this temperature in Kelvin? in Fahrenheit? in Rankine? 3. The Humber Bridge in England has the world's longest single span, 1410 m. Calculate the change in length of the steel deck of the span when the temperature increases from 5.0C to 180C. 4. A copper cylinder ls-initially at 200C. At what temperature will its volume be 0.150% larger than it is at 200C? 5. In an effort to stay awake all-night study session, a student makes a cup of coffee by rst placing a ZOO-W electric immersion heater in a 0320 kg of water. (a) How much heat is required to raise its temperature from 20.0\" C to 800C? (b) How much tlrne is required? (Assume that all of the heater's power goes into heating the water.)

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