Mechanical Properties of Solids questions
395 published questions with worked solutions.
- The Young's modulus of a steel wire of length 6 m and cross-sectional area 3 mm^2, is 2 10^ 11 N/m^2. The wire is suspended from...
- A certain pressure 'P' is applied to 1 litre of water and 2 litre of a liquid separately. Water gets compressed to 0.01% whereas...
- A metal block of mass m is suspended from a rigid support through a metal wire of diameter 14 mm. The tensile stress developed in...
- A 0.1 kg mass is suspended from a wire of negligible mass. The length of the wire is 1m and its cross-sectional area is 4.9 10^...
- One end of a horizontal thick copper wire of length 2L and radius 2R is welded to an end of another horizontal thin copper wire...
- A steel wire of diameter 0.5 mm and Young's modulus 2 10^ 11 N ,m^ -2 carries a load of mass M. The length of the wire with the...
- A cubical solid aluminium (bulk modulus = -V dP dV = 70 GPa) block has an edge length of 1 m on the surface of the earth. It is...
- A steel wire of length 3.2 m (Y_s = 2.0 10^ 11 Nm^ -2 ) and a copper wire of length 4.4 m (Y_c = 1.1 10^ 11 Nm^ -2 ), both of...
- A string of area of cross-section 4 mm^ 2 and length 0.5 m is connected with a rigid body of mass 2 kg. The body is rotated in a...
- The force required to stretch a wire of cross-section 1 cm^ 2 to double its length will be: (Given Young's modulus of the wire =...
- If the length of a wire is made double and radius is halved of its respective values. Then, the Young's modules of the material...
- A steel rod has a radius of 20 mm and a length of 2.0 m. A force of 62.8 kN stretches it along its length. Young's modulus of...
- An aluminium rod with Young's modulus Y = 7.0×10^ 10 N/m^2 undergoes elastic strain of 0.04%. The energy per unit volume stored...
- The length of a wire becomes l_1 and l_2 when 100 N and 120 N tension are applied respectively. If 10l_2 = 11l_1, then the...
- Under isothermal condition, the pressure of a gas is given by P = aV^ -3 , where a is a constant and V is the volume of the gas....
- The elastic potential energy stored in a steel wire of length 20 m stretched through 2 cm is 80 J. The cross sectional area of...
- A wire of length 'L' and radius 'r' is clamped rigidly at one end. When the other end of the wire is pulled by a force f, its...
- Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A : Steel is used...
- A 100 m long wire having cross-sectional area 6.25 10^ -4 m^2 and Young's modulus is 10^ 10 Nm^ -2 is subjected to a load of 250...
- A force is applied to a steel wire 'A', rigidly clamped at one end. As a result elongation in the wire is 0.2 mm. If same force...
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