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A steel wire of uniform diameter has length 2.5 m, mass 0.016 kg and density `7.9 times 10^3 kg.m^-3`. What will be the Young's modulus of steel if a load of 12 kg is needed to elongate the wire by 1.8 mm?

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`2 times 10^11 N.m^-2`
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CHHAYA PUBLICATION-ELASTICITY -EXERCISE ( Problem Set-I)
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  6. When a load of 3 kg is hung from one end of a copper wire of length 2 ...

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  8. Cross sectional area of a steel wire is 1 cm^2.How much force is requi...

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  9. The length of a wire of diameter 0.8 mm is 2.5 m, IF the breaking stre...

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  10. Young's modulus for the material of a substance is 7.25 times 10^10 N....

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  17. Young modulus of a material =18.5 times 10^10 N.m^-2 and its poisson's...

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  18. The value of Young's modulus for a material is 24 times 10^11 dyn.cm^-...

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  19. Two wires of the same length are made of different materials. Diameter...

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