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A mild steel wire of length 1.0 m and cross - sectional area `0.50xx10^(-2)" cm"^(2)` is stretched, well within its elastic limit, horizontally between two pillars. A mass of 100 g is suspended from the mid - point of the wire. Calculate the depression at the mid point.

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Approximately 0.01 m
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