Measurement of Young modulus of Copper

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my data as below
diameter of copper wire/m 0.025 (mean)
Unstretched part = 0.285m
mass(m)/KG extension(e)/m
0.1 0
0.2 0
0.3 0
0.4 0.001
0.5 0.001
0.6 0.001
0.7 0.003
0.8 0.003
0.9 0.005
1 0.005
1.1 0.006
1.2 0.009
1.3 0.014
1.4 0.021
1.5 break

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I don't know how to find the exact slope and the exact pattern of the graph
am my data wrong ?

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What do you mean by "I don't know how to find the exact slope"? With experimental data, you can never get exact values. The best you can do is plot the data and draw a best-fit line.
 
ideasrule said:
What do you mean by "I don't know how to find the exact slope"? With experimental data, you can never get exact values. The best you can do is plot the data and draw a best-fit line.

i know but it is very difficult to draw a best fit line as the graph i draw showing two linear line
 
I see a nice-looking curve when I plot the data. Are you sure you graphed it correctly?
 
To solve this, I first used the units to work out that a= m* a/m, i.e. t=z/λ. This would allow you to determine the time duration within an interval section by section and then add this to the previous ones to obtain the age of the respective layer. However, this would require a constant thickness per year for each interval. However, since this is most likely not the case, my next consideration was that the age must be the integral of a 1/λ(z) function, which I cannot model.
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