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Stress and strain
Question

A wire elongates by / mm when a load Wis hanged from it. If the wire goes over a pulley and two weights W each are hung at the two ends, the elongation of the wire will be (in mm): 

Moderate
Solution

TENSION or stretching force is same in both the cases and hence elongation is same in both the cases.

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