A horizontal wooden beam sags a bit when supported at its ends. In between the top and bottom surfaces is a region of

A) tension.
B) compression.
C) neither of these


Answer: C

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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A steel wire hangs from a high-altitude balloon. The steel has unit weight 77 kN/m3 and yield stress of 280 MPa. The required factor of safety against yield is 2.0. The maximum permissible length of the wire is approximately:

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