Question: Problem 1 : Scaling effect on a cantilever beam ( 1 5 points ) Consider a cantilever beam made of a given material ( density:

Problem 1: Scaling effect on a cantilever beam (15 points)
Consider a cantilever beam made of a given material (density: \(\rho \), Young modulus: Y ), having dimensions L , w and t (length, width and thickness, respectively). Assuming the cantilever have \( L \) along \( x \)-axis, \( w \) along the \( y \)-axis and \( t \) along the \( z \)-axis. A suitable excitation can drive the cantilever to vibrate at its own resonance frequency, \(\omega_{0}\). The vibrating cantilever can be used as a mass sensor by measuring its resonance frequency shift (with respect to the unloaded value \(\omega_{0}\)) due to a change in the mass, \( m \)(\( m \ll \) the weight of the beam). Use scaling analysis to show the improvement in the mass sensitivity of the beam (e.g. resonance frequency shift to mass change \((\mathrm{d}\omega /\mathrm{dm})\)), when the linear dimensions of the beam is scaled by a factor of 10.
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