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Solids are least compressible but gases are most compressible. Why?

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MAXIMUM PUBLICATION-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS-EXERCISE
  1. Solids are least compressible but gases are most compressible. Why?

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  2. Find the radius of the rope that used to lift 10tons(10000kg). Elastic...

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  3. What is meant by buckling?

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  4. Why the beams used in construction of bridges have a cross-section of ...

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  5. Find the height of mountain from the data given below. Maximum shearin...

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  6. If longitudinal strain for a wire is 0*03 and its poisson's ratio is 0...

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  7. Between steel and diamond, which is more elastic?

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  8. What is the value of Y for a perfectly elastic body?

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  9. Young's modulus of the wire depends on

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  10. For most materials the Young's modulus is n times the rigidity modulus...

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  11. The stress required to double the length of a wire of Young's modulus ...

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  12. What is the bulk modulus of a perfectly rigid body?

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  13. What is shear modulus of liquid?

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  14. What is the rigidity modulus of liquid?

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  15. Identify the type of modulus in twisting of cylinder.

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  16. Why work is required to be done to stretch a wire?

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  17. Name the material which is famous for a large elastic after-effect.

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  18. Find stress required to double the length of a wire of Young's modulus...

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  19. When wire is bent back and forth, it becomes hot. Why?

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  20. Hook's law is said to be that fundamentral law in elasticity. State Ho...

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