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JEE Main 2026Mechanical Properties of Solids Question with Solution

JEE Main 2026 (04 April Shift 2)

Question

A metal string is suspended from a rigid support and its free end is attached to a block of mass . Second block having mass is suspended at the bottom of the first block using a string . The area of cross sections of strings and are same. The ratio of lengths of strings of to is and the ratio of their Young's moduli is . The ratio of elongations in to is ______.

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Step-by-step explanation

Tension in string is due to the block of mass :



Tension in string is due to both blocks of mass and :



The elongation in a string is given by Hooke's law as .

The ratio of elongations in string to string is:



Given that , , and .

Substituting the values into the ratio equation:





Answer:

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