Consider steel railroad rails, which have a thermal coefficient of linear expansion of 1.20 × 10-5 / °C. How large an expansion gap, in meters, should be left between such rails if they may reach a maximum temperature 36°C greater than when they are laid? Assume their initial length is 10.0 m

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