MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS Applications Of Elastic Behaviour Of Materials Post a Comment The elastic behaviour of materials plays an important role in everyday life. All engineering design… Read more Applications Of Elastic Behaviour Of Materials
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS Elastic Potential Energy in a Stretched Wire Post a Comment When a wire is put under a tensile stress, work is done against the inter-atomic forces. This work … Read more Elastic Potential Energy in a Stretched Wire
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS Bulk Modulus and Poisson's Ratio Post a Comment In Section ( STRESS AND STRAIN ), we have seen that when a body is submerged in a fluid, it undergo… Read more Bulk Modulus and Poisson's Ratio
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS Shear Modulus Post a Comment The ratio of shearing stress to the corresponding shearing strain is called the shear modulus of th… Read more Shear Modulus
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS Determination of Young’s Modulus of the Material of a Wire Post a Comment A typical experimental arrangement to determine the Young’s modulus of a material of wire under ten… Read more Determination of Young’s Modulus of the Material of a Wire
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS Elastic Moduli Post a Comment The proportional region within the elastic limit of the stress-strain curve (region OA in Fig. 9.3)… Read more Elastic Moduli
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS Hooke’s Law and Stress-Strain Curve Post a Comment Stress and strain take different forms in the situations depicted in the Fig. (1). For small deform… Read more Hooke’s Law and Stress-Strain Curve
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS Elastic Behaviour Of Solids, Stress And Strain Post a Comment We know that in a solid, each atom or molecule is surrounded by neighbouring atoms or molecules. Th… Read more Elastic Behaviour Of Solids, Stress And Strain
Gravitation Energy Of An Orbiting Satellite Post a Comment Using Eq. $V^2=\frac{GM_E}{R_E+h}$ the kinetic energy of the satellite in a circular orbit with sp… Read more Energy Of An Orbiting Satellite
Gravitation Geostationary And Polar Satellites Post a Comment An interesting phenomenon arises if in we arrange the value of ($R_E + h$) such that T in $T=\frac… Read more Geostationary And Polar Satellites
Gravitation Weightlessness Post a Comment Weight of an object is the force with which the earth attracts it. We are conscious of our own weig… Read more Weightlessness