Question

mass of a block of metal is 10kg and its dimension are lenght 50 cm,breadth 10 cm,height 20 cm if the metal block is placed on following surface on the table find out on which of the surface abcd,cdef and bcfg will the presure exerted on the table be maximum

Answer 1

Answer:

pressure=force/area

Therefore, lower the area, more the pressure...

Area of base in the three cases:-

a) 50*10=500cm^2

b)20*10=200cm^2

c)20*50=1000cm^2

The lowest are is (b)200cm^2.

Therefore, the placement with 20*10 as the base will have greatest pressure

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