When a 125-kg piece of equipment is hung from a steel wire of diameter 6.00 mm , it stretches the wire by 4.0 mm. If instead the wire had a diameter of 3.00 mm, but all else were the same, by what distance would the same equipment stretch the wire?
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This is because the same force is distributed over a smaller area, causing more stretching. The cross-sectional area of a wire (or any cylinder) is given by the formula π*(d/2)^2, where d is the diameter of the wire. So, the cross-sectional area of the original Show more…
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