Think of a crystalline solid as a set of atoms connected by ideal springs. When a wire is stretched, how is the elongation of the wire related to the elongation of each of the interatomic springs? Use your answer to explain why a given tensile stress produces an elongation of the wire proportional to the wire's initial length-or, equivalently, that a given stress produces the same strain in wires of different lengths?

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