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At the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, a Large Historic

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At the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, a large historic aircraft is to be put on display. The plan is to suspend it by a steel cable from the roof. The aircraft weighs 8 tonnes, and the cable will be 5 m long, and has a radius of 1 cm. Steel has a Young's Modulus of 2x1011 N m-2. By how much will the cable stretch (in mm) when it is supporting the whole weight of the aircraft?


A) 0.08.
B) 0.8.
C) 3.2.
D) 7.7.
E) 32.0.

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