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True or false: Increasing the Young’s modulus of a beam in bending will cause it to deflect less.

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I think the answer is False.

User Eshant Bist
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Answer:

false?

Step-by-step explanation:

The higher the modulus, the more stress is needed to create the same amount of strain; an idealized rigid body would have an infinite Young's modulus.

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