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A steel wire is suspended from a fixed end, while the other end is loaded with a weight W. This produced an extension x. As the weight is increased, the extension was also increased. A plot of extension vs load within elastic limits will give rise to

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a curve
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an ellipse
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a straight line
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a hyperbola
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Solution

The correct option is C a straight line
The plot is between extension and the force (mg), which will be a straight line
The correct option is option (c)

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