JEE Main 2022 — Mechanical Properties of Solids Question with Solution
JEE Main 2022 (27 Jul Shift 2)
Question
In an experiment to determine the Young's modulus, steel wires of five different lengths ( and ) but of same cross-section were taken and curves between extension and load were obtained. The slope (extension/load) of the curves were plotted with the wire length and the following graph is obtained. If the Young's modulus of given steel wires is , then the value of is _____ .

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Step-by-step explanation
We know that, Young's modulus is , where, is force or load acting on wire, is cross-section area, is length and is extension in length.
Now, from given graph, the slope of the line is
Thus, Young's modulus of the steel wires is
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Therefore, .
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