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  2. What is more elastic : water or air, why?

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  3. Why is a spring made of steel, not of copper?

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  5. What happens to the work done instreching a wire?

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  6. Identical spring of steel and copper are equally stretched. On which, ...

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  7. There are two idential springs of copper and steel. They are stretched...

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  8. A wire gets heated when it is bent back and forth. Why?

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  9. A hard wire is broken by bending repeatedly in alternating directions...

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  10. Explain why should the beams used in the construction of bridge and sm...

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  11. The ratio stress/strain remains constant for small deformation. What w...

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  12. The young's modulus of a wire of length (L) and radius (r ) is Y. If t...

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  13. A wire fixed at the upper end stretches by length l by applying a forc...

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  14. A wire suspended vertically from one of the its ends is stretched by a...

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  15. If 'S' is stress and 'Y' is young's modulus of material of a wire, the...

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  16. A wire stretches by a certain amount under a load. If the load and rad...

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  17. Which one is more elastic rubber or steel? Explain.

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  18. Two different types of rubber are found to have the stress-strain curv...

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  19. Read each of the statement below carefully and state, with reasons, if...

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  20. Two wires of the same length and material but different radii r(1) and...

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