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The Widow's Lament...

     You've heard about Mrs. Longlegs, the wife of Mr. "Big Daddy" Longlegs... she's wearing black, 'cause she's in mourning. 
 
      Big Daddy, you see, just got too big; his weight exceeded the tensile strength of the web (spider, not world wide:-). It broke and he fell under a passing foot. Now his wife is a black widow spider. Next time she'll marry an engineer! 

     Maybe you can help her out... she would like to know how heavy her next husband can be. If the area of the web strand is 0.0004 m2 and its tensile strength is 120 N/m2, how much weight will it support?

Spider Web
 

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