Applications Of Elastic Behaviour Of Materials

The elastic behaviour of materials plays an important role in everyday life. Al… Read more Applications Of Elastic Behaviour Of Materials

Elastic Potential Energy in a Stretched Wire

When a wire is put under a tensile stress, work is done against the inter-atomi… Read more Elastic Potential Energy in a Stretched Wire

Bulk Modulus and Poisson's Ratio

In Section ( STRESS AND STRAIN ), we have seen that when a body is submerged in… Read more Bulk Modulus and Poisson's Ratio

Shear Modulus

The ratio of shearing stress to the corresponding shearing strain is called the… Read more Shear Modulus

Determination of Young’s Modulus of the Material of a Wire

A typical experimental arrangement to determine the Young’s modulus of a materi… Read more Determination of Young’s Modulus of the Material of a Wire

Elastic Moduli

The proportional region within the elastic limit of the stress-strain curve (re… Read more Elastic Moduli

Hooke’s Law and Stress-Strain Curve

Stress and strain take different forms in the situations depicted in the Fig. (… Read more Hooke’s Law and Stress-Strain Curve

Elastic Behaviour Of Solids, Stress And Strain

We know that in a solid, each atom or molecule is surrounded by neighbouring at… Read more Elastic Behaviour Of Solids, Stress And Strain

Energy Of An Orbiting Satellite

Using Eq.  $V^2=\frac{GM_E}{R_E+h}$ the kinetic energy of the satellite in a ci… Read more Energy Of An Orbiting Satellite

Geostationary And Polar Satellites

An interesting phenomenon arises if in we arrange the value of ($R_E + h$) such… Read more Geostationary And Polar Satellites

Weightlessness

Weight of an object is the force with which the earth attracts it. We are consc… Read more Weightlessness