Wire Combinations & Special Cases
A uniform heavy rod of mass , cross sectional area and length is hanging from a fixed support. Neglecting the lateral contraction, the elongation in the rod due to its own weight is . The value of is _______________.
(Given, young modulus Y = 2 1011 Nm−2 and g = 10 ms−2)
Numerical answer type. Work it out, then open the answer.
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Answer: 25
- Own-weight elongation: with
- , so .