Wednesday, 05 October 2016

Mechanical science:

Lecture 2: Elasticity

Hooke’s law:

The law states if a tensile force, F is applied to a spring of natural length l, the extension of the spring
delta l, is given by

Doubling the mass suspended= double the force= double the extension.

Hooke’s law only applies for small extensions (or compression depending on the individual spring of
the body

Once the elastic limit is reached the ratio of extension to applied force becomes highly non-linear.

Hooke’s law applies to other objects that exhibit elasticity such as metal bars and wires.

Small contraction is Same as the extension cause by a tensile force of the same magnitude.

Strain, stress and young’s modulus:

Unit quantities:

Strain is length divided by a length, so its dimensionless parameter. it has no units.

Stress is calculated in the same way