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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 2:28pm.

A 15-kg chandelier is suspended from the ceiling by four vertical steel wires. Each wire has an unloaded length of 5 m and a diameter of 6 mm, and each bears an equal load. When the chandelier is hung, how far do the wires stretch? (The Young's modulus for steel is 2.00 1011 N/m2.)

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