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Is the Shear Modulus also known as the Bending or Flexural Modulus? Because the formula I used was from a website which called it that, but I thought it was the same as the Youngs Modulus. Silly me.

Thankyou for your help. Could you please clarify the difference between Youngs Modulus and Shear Modulus? Can I find a recorded value for the shear modulus of steel or is this not a property of the material?

I am doing my A2 physics coursework of the bending of cantilevers [zz)] I hung masses on a steel bar and measured the deflection, and then used a formula to calculate the Youngs Modulus of the steel, but the answer I got was way out - 9.6X10^9 instead of 200X10^9. Is this because I calculated...