JAMB Physics · Energy, pressure and heat
Elasticity: JAMB Physics Past Questions and Answers
What the JAMB syllabus covers in Elasticity
Our summary: How springs and wires stretch under load, Hooke's law and Young's modulus.
- Hooke's law and Young's modulus
- Elastic limit, yield point, breaking point
- The spring balance as a device for measuring force
- Work done per unit volume in springs and elastic strings
Objectives
- interpret force-extension curves;
- interpret Hooke's law and Young's modulus of a material;
- use spring balance to measure force;
- determine the work done in spring and elastic strings.
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JAMB Physics questions on Elasticity
- JAMB 2025A wire of radius 0.3cm is used to lift a block of 1.5kg. Calculate the stress introduced into the wire [ take g = 10m/s ^2 ]
- JAMB 2024The property by which a material returns to its original shape after the removal of force is called
- JAMB 2024The dimension of young's modulus,E is given by
- JAMB 2024A force of 10N extends a spring of natural length 1m by 0.02m, calculate the length of the spring when the applied force is 40N.
- JAMB 2024The stress experienced by a wire of diameter y m loaded by a weight y ^2 N is
- JAMB 2023A wire of radius 0.2 mm is extended by 0.5% of its length when supported by a load of 1.5 kg. Determine the Young's modulus for the material of the wire. [Take…
- JAMB 2022The potential energy in an elastic string of force constant k, which has an extension X is?
- JAMB 2021If the stress on a wire is 10 ^ 7 NM ^ -2 and the wire is stretched from its original length of 10.00m to 10.05m. The young's modulus of the wire is?
- JAMB 2019The point at which the molecules of a loaded wire begin to slide across each other resulting in a rapid increase in extension is
- JAMB 2017A string of length 5cm is extended by 0.04m when a load of 0.8kg is suspended at the end. How far will it extend if a force of 16N is applied? [g = 10ms ^ -2 ]
- JAMB 2014A force of 500N1 is applied to a steel wire of cross-sectional area 0.2m2, The tensile stress is
- JAMB 2013Calculate the work done when a force of 20N stretches a spring by 50mm.
- JAMB 2012If a load of 1 kg stretches a cord by 1.2cm, what is the force constant of the cord? g=10 ms^ -2
- JAMB 2011A copper wire was subjected to a tensile stress of 7.7 x 10 ^7 . Calculate the strain of the wire. [Young modules = 1.1 x 10 ^11 Nm ^ -2 ]
- JAMB 2010If a wire 30 cm long is extended to 30.5 cm by a force of 300 N. find the strain energy of wire
Years with Elasticity questions in DeeepSolve's question bank
From the past questions DeeepSolve holds, not a count of everything the exam body has set.
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