Elasticity
Elasticity: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Hooke's Law, Elasticity, Creep & Elastic Hysteresis etc.
Important Questions on Elasticity
A student performs an experiment to determine the Young’s modulus of a wire, exactly long, by Searle’s method. In a particular reading, the student measures the extension in the length of the wire to be with an uncertainty of at a load of exactly . The student also measures the diameter of the wire to be with an uncertainty of . Take (exact). The Young’s modulus obtained from the reading is

A wire of length is made from of copper. A force is applied so that its length increase by . Another wire of length is made from the same volume of copper. If the force is applied to it, its length will increase by

A rod of iron of Young's modulus just fits the gap between two rigid supports apart. If the rod is heated throughthe strain energy of the rod is ( area of cross-section)

A steel rod of length and cross-sectional area is heated from to without being allowed to extend or bend. The compressive tension produced in the rod is _____. (Given Young's modulus of steel , coefficient of linear expansion )

The length of a wire becomes and when and tension are applied respectively. If , then the natural length of wire will be . Here the value of is

The elastic potential energy stored in a steel wire of length stretched through is The cross sectional area of the wire is _____ (Given, )

Under isothermal condition, the pressure of a gas is given by where is a constant and is the volume of the gas. The bulk modulus at constant temperature is equal to

A wire of length and radius is clamped rigidly at one end. When the other end of the wire is pulled by a force, its length increases by . Another wire of same material of length and radius is pulled by a force . Then the increase in its length will be:

Two wires each of radius and negligible mass, one made of steel and the other made of brass are loaded as shown in the figure. The elongation of the steel wire is ______. [Young's modulus for steel and ]

A steel rod has a radius of and a length of A force of stretches it along its length. Young's modulus of steel is . The longitudinal strain produced in the wire is .

An aluminium rod with Young’s modulus undergoes elastic strain of . The energy per unit volume stored in the rod in unit

A metal block of mass is suspended from a rigid support through a metal wire of diameter . The tensile stress developed in the wire under equilibrium state is . The value of mass is ______ .
(Take and )

A hydraulic automobile lift is designed to lift vehicles of mass . The area of cross section of the cylinder carrying load is . The maximum pressure the smaller piston would have to bear is [Assume ]

Young’s moduli of the material of wires A and B are in the ratio of , while its area of cross sections are in the ratio of . If the same amount of load is applied to both the wires, the amount of elongation produced in the wires A and B will be in the ratio of [Assume length of wires A and B are same]

Pressure for polytropic process varies with volume as , Find out the bulk modulus.

A material has Poisson's ratio and Young's modulus. If a uniform rod of it suffers a lateral strain of, then percentage change in its density will be

Wires and have their Young's moduli in the ratio , area of cross-section in the ratio of and lengths in ratio of . If same force is applied on the two wires to elongate, then ratio of elongation is equal to

A cast iron column has internal diameter of . What should be the minimum external diameter so that it may carry a load of without the stress exceeding

Assertion(A): Steel is used to build big structures.
Reason(R): Steel has more elastic modulus as compared to other materials.

If the length of a wire is made double and radius is halved of its respective values. Then, the Young’s modulus of the material of the wire is
