Spider silk has a Young's modulus of 4.0 × 109 N/m2 and can withstand stresses up to 1.4 × 109 N/m2. A single web strand has a cross-sectional area of 1.0 × 10ˆ’11 m2, and a web is made up of 50 radial strands. A bug lands in the center of a horizontal web so that the web stretches downward?
(a) If the maximum stress is exerted on each strand, what angle ( does the web make with the horizontal?
(b) What does the mass of a bug have to be in order to exert this maximum stress on the web?
(c) If the web is 0.10 m in radius, how far down does the web extend?

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0.10 m