A wire that is 1.0 mm in diameter and 3.5 m long stretches 3.5 mm when an 8.0-kg tool is hung from it

(a) What is Young's modulus for the material from this wire is made?
(b) What is the effective spring constant for the stretching wire?

What will be an ideal response?


(a) 1.0 × 1011 Pa (b) 2.2 × 104 N/m

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