Two wires A and B are made of same material having ratio of lengths
and their diameters ratio
. If both the wires are stretched using same force, what would be the ratio of their respective elongations?
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Given:
The ratio of lengths:
The ratio of diameters:
Both wires are subject to the same stretching force, and since they are made of the same material, their Young's modulus
is the same.
The elongation (
) of a wire subject to a force is given by:
where
is the force applied,
is the original length,
is the cross-sectional area, and
is Young's modulus.
For wires
and
:

Since
and
, the ratio of their elongations becomes:

The cross-sectional area
is a function of diameter,
. Therefore,

Substituting these into the elongation ratio:

Substitute the given ratios:

Thus, the ratio of the elongations of wires
and
is
.
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