Question

A cylindrical wire made of an unknown alloy hangs from a support in the ceiling. You measure the relaxed length of the wire to be 16 m long; and the radius of the wire to be 3.5 m. When hang a 5 kg mass from the wire, you measure that it stretches a distance of 4 x 10 m The average bond length between atoms is 2.3 x 10^0 m for th alloy.
Required:
What is the stiffness of a typical interatomic bond in the alloy

Answer 1

Answer: hello  some of your values are wrongly written hence I will resolve your question using the right values

answer:

stiffness =  1.09 * 10^-6 N/m

Explanation:

Given data:

Length ( l ) = 16 m

radius of wire ( r ) = 3.5 m

mass ( m ) = 5kg

Distance stretched (  Δl ) = 4 * 10^-3 m ( right value )

average bond length ( between atoms ) = 2.3 * 10^-10 m ( right value)

first step : calculate the area

area ( A ) = πr^2 = π * ( 3.5)^2 = 38.48 m^2

        γ          = MgL / A Δl

                    = [ (5 * 9.81 * 16 ) / ( 38.48 * (4.3*10^-3) ) ]

                    = 784.8 / 0.165 = 4756.36 N/m^2

hence : stiffness =   γ  * bond length

                           =  4756.36 * 2.3 * 10^-10  = 1.09 * 10^-6 N/m