Orb spiders make silk with a typical radius of of 75 micrometers. Young’s modulus of spider silk: 2.0 x 109 N/m2. Tensile strength of spider silk: 1.0 x 109 N/m2. A typical large orb spider has a mass of 0.5 grams. Please answer each part of the question clearly labeled with an answer a,b,c etc a.  If this spider suspends itself from a single 12 cm long strand of silk, by how much will the silk

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1. Orb spiders make silk with a typical radius of of 75 micrometers. Young’s modulus of spider silk: 2.0 x 109 N/m2. Tensile strength of spider silk: 1.0 x 109 N/m2. A typical large orb spider has a mass of 0.5 grams. Please answer each part of the question clearly labeled with an answer a,b,c etc

a.  If this spider suspends itself from a single 12 cm long strand of silk, by how much will the silk stretch? (Give your answer in micrometers.)

b. What is the maximum weight the strand of silk from the previous problem can support? (Give your answer in N.)

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