Elastic and Plastic Behaviour
 

Elastic and Plastic Behaviour problem 30


A metal wire is stretched by a load. The force-extension graph is shown.




What is represented by the area under the whole graph?


  • the change in gravitational potential energy of the wire


  • the energy that would be released from the wire if the final load was removed


  • the energy transferred into heat energy in the wire


  • the work done in stretching the wire


 

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