A steel sphere with a radius of 2.0 m falls off a ship and sinks to a depth where the pressure is 15 MN/m2. The bulk modulus for steel is 1.6×1011 N/m2. What is the change in the radius of the sphere?

A)

0.021 mm

B)

4.2 mm

C)

0.42 mm

D)

0.19 mm

E)

0.063 mm


E

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