MODIFIED MASTERING COLLEGE PHYSICS 18WK.

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ISBN: 9780136782216

Author: Knight

Publisher: PEARSON

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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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