College Physics: A Strategic Approach (4th Edition)
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Author: Randall D. Knight (Professor Emeritus), Brian Jones, Stuart Field
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Chapter 8, Problem 64GP
Orb spiders make silk with a typical diameter of 0.15 mm.
a. A typical large orb spider has a mass of 0.50 g. If this spider suspends itself from a single 12-cm-long strand of silk, by how much will the silk stretch?
b. What is the maximum weight that a single thread of this silk could support?
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