1. A 5kg mass is hung by a vertical steel wire 0.5 m long and 6x 10 cm' in cross- I sectional area. Hanging from the bottom of this mass is a similar steel wire, from
which in turn hangs a 10 kg mass. For each wire, compute (a) tensile strain and
(b) the elongation. The Young's modulus of steel is 2 x10" Pa.

Total solidification times of three casting geometries are to be compared: a sphere, a cylinder, in which the length-to-diameter ration - 1.0, and a cube. volume = 1000 cm^3 for all three shhapes, and the same casting alloy is used. a) determine the solidification times of each geometry b) based on the results of part (a), which geometric element would make the best riser? c) if the mold constant = 3.5 min/cm^2 in chvorinov's rule, compute the total solidification time for each casting.