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stress is directly proportional to strain and why

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9 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
From the Young’s Modulus pronciple, stress and strain is relayted as:
Y = stress/strain
Hence for Y as constant we get,
strain  = Y *stress
Here stress is obvious directly proprtional to the strain for constant Y.