Physics (AS & A Level) · Feb / March 2024 · Paper 22 · Question 3

A thin metal wire X, of diameter 1.2 × 10–3 m, is used to suspend a model planet, as shown in Fig. 3.1. model planet wire X Fig. 3.1 (not to scale) The variation with strain of the stress for wire X is shown in Fig. 3.2. 0 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 stress / GPa strain / 10–3 1.0 2 4 6 8 10 Fig. 3.2

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