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JanineSamson
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Homework Statement
Hi,
I have a practical to do soon, it's only a basic thing because we've only been doing physics for just over a month - plotting a stress-strain graph for an elastic band...
2. The attempt at a solution
Now, I was just going to measure the original length of the band & add weights each time measuring the extension so the Force being the independant variable and the extension being the independant one.
Problem is, when it comes to working out the stress what do I use for the cross-sectional area? As it's stretching the cross-sectional area on a rubber band would probably change quite a lot, how do you deal with this? Or would you just mention that in the write up as a "source of error" and use the initial area before you started stretching it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is my first practical so I'm not really sure what to do.
Thanks in advance.