A steel beam is placed vertically in the basement of a building to keep the floor above

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A steel beam is placed vertically in the basement of a building to keep the floor above from sagging. The load on the beam is 5.8 × 104 N, the length of the beam is 2.5 m, and the cross-sectional area of the beam is 7.5 × 10−3 m2. Find the vertical compression of the beam?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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