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A steel wire of diameter 2 mm has a breaking strength of 4×105 N. What is the breaking force of similar steel wire of diameter 1.5 mm?

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Important Questions on Mechanical Properties of Solids

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A steel wire is 1 m long and 1 mm2 in area of crosssection. If it takes 200 N to stretch this wire by 1mm, how much force will be required to stretch a wire of the same material as well as diameter from its normal length of 10 m to a length of 1002 cm?
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What is the percentage increase in length of a wire of diameter 2.5 mm, stretched by a force of 100 kg-wt ?

Young's modulus of elasticity of wire =12.5×1011dyne/cm2 

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The Poisson ratio of the material is 0.5. If a force is applied be a wire of this material, there is a decrease in cross-sectional area by 4%. The percentage increase in length is
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A uniform cubical block is subjected to volumetric compression, which decreases its each side by 2%. The Bulk strain produced in it is
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The Poisson's ratio cannot have the value,

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A material has Poisson's ratio 0.5. If a uniform rod of it suffers a longitudinal strain of 2×10-3, the percentage increase in its volume is :
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When a load of 10 kg is suspended on a metallic wire, its length increase by 2 mm. The force constant of the wire is