Physics 9702: DEFORMATION OF SOLIDS Topical Past Paper Questions

(a) State Hooke's law. [ (b) In an experiment to determine the spring constant of a spring X, a student measures the original length of the spring. The student then suspends an object in equilibrium from the spring and measures the final length of the spring. The spring does not…

A bungee jumper of mass 64kg secures one end of an elastic rope to a bridge. The other end is attached to the bungee jumper. The jumper falls from rest from the bridge and descends into the valley below, as shown in Fig. 3.1. Fig. 3.1 (not to scale) Fig. 3.2 shows the variation o…

A rubber cord hangs from a rigid support. A weight attached to its lower end is gradually increased from zero, and then gradually reduced to zero. The force–extension curve for contraction is below the force–extension curve for stretching. What does the shaded area between the cu…