After a fall, a 73 kg rock climber finds himself dangling from the end of a rope that had been 17 m long and 7.5 mm in diameterbut has stretched by 3.3 cm. For the rope, calculate (a) the strain, (b) the stress, and (c) the Young's modulus.(a) Numberi 1.9412x10^-3Units(b) NumberUnits(c) NumberiUnits>>

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After a fall, a 73 kg rock climber finds himself dangling from the end of a rope that had been 17 m long and 7.5 mm in diameter but has stretched by 3.3 cm. For the rope, calculate (a) the strain, (b) the stress, and (c) the Young's modulus.