Review of Hookes Law and Moduli of Elasticity

PHY11-TOPIC 9

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Learning Objectives:

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After this topic, you should be able to:

Apply the relationship (Hooke's law) between spring force, the stretch or compression of the spring, and the spring constant.
Calculate the work done on an object by a spring force
Calculate the elastic potential energy of a block-spring system
Apply the equation that relates stress to strain and modulus of elasticity.
Differentiate Youngs, Shear, and Bulk modulus of elasticity.
CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS

1.

Which one of the following statements concerning Hooke's

law is NOT true?
A. Hooke's law relates stress and strain.
B. Hooke's law is valid only for springs.
C. Hooke's law can be verified experimentally.
D. Hooke's law can be applied to a wide range of
materials.
E. Hooke's law is valid only within the elastic limit of a
given material.
Ans. _________________________

2.

Complete the following statement: In general, the term stress

refers to _______________.
A. a change in volume.
B. a change in length.
C. a force per unit area.
D. a fractional change in length.
E. a force per unit length.

3.

The table gives the initial lengths of three rods and the
changes in their lengths when forces are applied to their ends
to put them under strain.
Rod
Initial Length
Change in Length
A
2L0
L0
B
4L0
2L0
C
10L0
4L0
Rank the rods according to their strain, greatest first.
Ans. ____________________________

4.

5.

For the three parts of this item, choose (letters are enough)
from the following choices the correct answer for the elastic
modulus that describes the relationship between stress and
strain for the system of interest, which is in bold letters:
(a) Youngs modulus
(b) shear modulus
(c) bulk modulus
(d) none of those choices
5.1. A block of iron is sliding across a horizontal floor. The
friction force between the sliding block and the floor
causes the block to deform.
Ans. ____________________________________________
5.2. A trapeze artist swings through a circular arc. At the
bottom of the swing, the wires supporting the trapeze
are longer than when the trapeze artist simply hangs
from the trapeze due to the increased tension in them.
Ans. ____________________________________________
5.3. A spacecraft carries a steel sphere to a planet on which
atmospheric pressure is much higher than on the Earth.
The higher pressure causes the radius of the sphere to
decrease.
Ans. ____________________________________________
End of Topic 9

A copper rod of cross-sectional area 0.500 cm2 and length

1.00 m is elongated by 2.00 102 mm, and a steel rod of the
same cross-sectional area but 0.100 m in length is elongated
by 2.00 103 mm.
4.1. Which rod has greater tensile strain?
Ans. __________________________
4.2. Which rod us under greater tensile stress?
Ans. __________________________
4.3. Which rod has greater Youngs modulus?
Ans. __________________________

Ernest P. Macalalad, Ph.D.

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