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Q1: The bar shown has a square cross section for which the depth and
thickness are 40 mm. If an axial force of 800 N is applied along the
centroidal axis of the bar’s cross sectional area, determine the average
normal stress acting on the bar?

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Q2: A piece of copper originally 305 mm long is pulled in tension with a stress
of 276 x 106 MPa. If the deformation is entirely elastic and elastic modulus
is 11 x 1011, what will be the resultant elongation?
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Q3: A person carries a 21 kg suitcase in one hand. Assuming the humerus
bone supports the entire weight, determine how much it stretches. Assume
the humerus is 33 cm in length and has an effective cross-sectional area of
10
5.2 x 10-4 m2. where Y= 1.6x 10 N/m2
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Q4: A telephone wire 120 m long and 2.2 mm in diameter is stretched by a
force of 380 N. What is the longitudinal stress? If the length after stretching
is 120.10 m, what is the longitudinal strain? Determine Young’s modulus for
the wire?
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Q5: A load of 102 kg is supported by a wire of length 2 m and cross sectional
area 0.1 cm2. The wire is stretched by 0.22 cm . Find the tensile stress,
tensile strain, and Young’s modulus of the wire ?
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Q6: A horizontal force of 1.2 N is applied to the top of a stack of pancakes 13
cm in diameter and 9 cm high. The result is a 2.5 cm shear. Find the shear
modulus.
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Q7: A solid lead sphere of volume 0.50m3 lowered to a depth of water of
pressure 2.0 x 107 N/m2. If the bulk modulus is 7.7 x 109 N/m2, find the
change in volume of the sphere?
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Q8: Find the dimension of the stress.
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Q9: Define the following terms:
o Deformation
o Deformation force.
o Elastic body.
o Strain and its dimension.
o Elastic limit
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Q10: State Hook's law. Define the modulus of elasticity and its dimension.
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Q11: Two wires have lengths in the ratio 3 : 2, diameters in the ratio 2 : 1 and
Young’s moduli in the ratio 1 : 2. Calculate the ratio of the elongations
produced in the wires when they are subjected to the same stretching force.
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Q12: What pressure should be applied to a lead block to reduce its volume by
10%.The bulk modulus of lead =6x109 N/m2
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Q13: Prove that the stress needed to double the length of a wire is equal to its
Young’s modulus.
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Q14: The elastic limit of copper is 1.5 x 104 N/m2. Find the minimum radius a
copper wire must have, if its elastic limit is not to be exceeded under a load
of 10 kg.
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Q15: What must be the elongation of a wire 5m long so that the strain is 1%
of 0.1? If the wire has a cross-section of 1mm2 and is stretched by 10kg,
what is the stress?
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Q16: Steel wire has diameter 6 mm and Young’s modulus 1.2 x 1011 N/m2.
What mass must be attached to free end of wire by keeping other end fixed
to produced elongation 0.5% of it’s original length?
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Q17: The extensions produced in the wires of length 4.7 m, having cross
sectional area 0.3 cm2 and another wire of length 3.5 m having cross
sectional area 0.4 cm2 under same load. compare their young’s moduli.
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Q18: The figure shows the strain-stress curve for a given material. What are
(a) Young’s modulus and
(b) approximate yield strength for this material?

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