Mechanical Properties of Solids questions
395 published questions with worked solutions.
- Statement 1: Stress is the internal force per unit area of a body Statement 2: Rubber is less elastic than steel
- To break a wire of one metre length, minimum 40 kg ,wt, is required. Then the wire of the same material of double radius and 6 m...
- The mass and length of a wire are M and L respectively. The density of the material of the wire is d. On applying the force F on...
- Two exactly similar wires of steel and copper are stretched by equal forces. If the difference in their elongations is 0.5 cm,...
- On all the six surfaces of a unit cube, equal tensile force of F is applied. The increase in length of each side will be (Y=...
- A cube of aluminium of each side 6 cm is subjected to a tangential force. The top face of the cube is sheared through 0.012 cm...
- A hollow cylindrical column of steel supports a load of 12,000 kg. The inner and outer radii of the column are 20 cm and 30 cm...
- A 45-kg traffic light is suspended with two steel wires of equal lengths and radii 0.5 cm. If the wires make an angle of 30^0...
- A stone of 0.5 kg mass is attached to one end of a metre long aluminium wire of 1 mm diameter and is suspended vertically. The...
- A load of 40 kg is suspended from a wire of radius 10^ -3 m and density 8 10^3 kg ,m^ -3 . Calculate the change in temperature...
- A copper wire and steel wire of the same diameter and of lengths 100 cm and 200 cm respectively are connected end to end and a...
- A metre long light rod is suspended from a rigid support horizontally by means of two vertical wires of equal length. One wire...
- Steel wire of length 'L' at 42^0C is suspended from the ceiling and then a mass 'M' is hung from its free end. The wire is cooled...
- Length of an elastic string is x metre when the longitudinal tension is 3 N. Length of the string is y metre when the tension is...
- A rubber sphere is surrounded by a liquid in a cylindrical container. A massless piston of area 0.05 m^2 floats on the surface of...
- A horizontal aluminium rod of diameter 8 cm projects 10 cm from a wall. An object of mass 600 kg is suspended from the end of the...
- When a load of 60 N is suspended from a string, its length is 98 mm. If a load of 100 N is suspended, its length is 102 mm. If a...
- The Young's modulus of a thick rubber string 10 cm long and density 1.48 kg/m^3 is 5 10^7 N/m^2. It is suspended on the ceiling...
- A uniform rod of length L and density is rotated in a horizontal plane about a vertical axis passing through one of its ends. The...
- A wire is suspended vertically from a rigid support. When loaded with a body in air, the wire extends by 6.2 mm and when the body...
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