Chapter 25 of 2363 min read
Stress, strain and Hooke's law
Why this is asked: Hooke's law (stress ∝ strain) holds only up to the proportional limit — the elastic limit lies slightly beyond it, so a material can still spring back to shape over a small range where stress and strain aren't proportional.
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