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What is a brittle material.

Important Questions on Elasticity

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The elastic limit of brass is 379 MPa. The minimum diameter of a brass rod if it is to support a 400 N load without exceeding its elastic limit will be
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A crane with a steel cable of length 11 m and radius 2.0 cm is employed to lift a block of concrete of mass 40 tons in a building site. If the Young's Modulus of steel is 2.0×1011 Pa, what will be roughly the increase in the length of the cable while lifting the block? (Take g=10 m s-2 )
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The dimensions of four wires of the same material are given below. In which wire the increase in length will be maximum when the same tension is applied?
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A wire of diameter 1 mm breaks under a tension of 1000 N. Another wire of the same material as that of the first one, but of diameter 2 mm breaks under a tension of:
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A copper wire of cross-sectional area 0.01 cm2 is under a tension of 22 N. Find the percentage change in the cross-sectional area (Young's modulus of copper =1.1×1011 N m-2 and Poisson ratio =0.32 )
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A steel rod has radius 50 mm and length 2 m. It is stretched along its length with a force of 400 kN. This causes an elongation of 0.5 mm. Find the (approximate) Young's modulus of steel from this information.
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The ratio of the length of two wires a and b of same materials is 1: 3 and the ratio of their diameters is 3: 1 . They are stretched by the same force then the ratio of increases in length will be
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Breaking stress of a steel wire is p and the density of steel is ρ. The greatest length of steel wire that can hang vertically without breaking is
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In plotting stress versus strain curves for two materials P and Q , a student by mistake puts strain on the y -axis and stress on the x - axis as shown in the figure. Then the correct statement(s) is(are)

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Which of the following is not a feature of the stress-strain curve for elastic tissue of aorta:
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The stress-strain graphs for materials A and B are shown in the figure.
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The graphs are drawn to the same scale.
Which of the two is the stronger material?
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What are the important characteristics of the stress-strain curve of the elastic tissue of aorta?
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What is the importance of the large elastic region in the stress-strain curve of the elastic tissue of the aorta?
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What mass of Carbon in grams is present in 0.01 mole of Buckminster fullerene?

Atomic mass of carbon=12 u

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Draw the stress-strain curve for the tissue of the aorta. What is the importance of the area within the curves for loading and unloading?
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Which of the following is correct regarding diad axis of symmetry?
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Represent the union of two sets by Venn diagram for each of the following.

X={x | x is a prime number between 80 and 100}

Y={y | y is an odd number between 90 and 100}

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What is the miller indices of the plane in the cubical unit cell shown below?




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Determine the region where Hooke’s law is obeyed, the ultimate strength point and fracture point in the given stress-strain graph.

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