An acrobat of mass 55 kg is going to hang by her teeth from a steel wire

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An acrobat of mass 55 kg is going to hang by her teeth from a steel wire and she does not want the wire to stretch beyond its elastic limit. The elastic limit for the wire is 2.5 × 108 Pa. What is the minimum diameter the wire should have to support her?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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