Timeline for Tension at the ends of an elastic rod being acted by external forces
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| Dec 23, 2023 at 11:13 | comment | added | gandalf61 | Your error is that the mass of the rod is distributed along its whole length, not concentrated at its two ends. You have calculated the average tension along the rod, but you have not considered how the tension varies along the rod. You should consider many small masses $\delta m$ which (we assume) are evenly distributed along the length of the rod. | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 10:32 | history | edited | Water | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
corrected the diagram
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| S Dec 23, 2023 at 10:24 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Dec 23, 2023 at 10:24 | history | answered | Water | CC BY-SA 4.0 |