Material Properties Quiz

What is Young's modulus useful for understanding?

• Material's resistance to tensile forces

• Material's resistance to shear forces

• Material's response to a three-dimensional compressive environment

• Material's response to an external force in a single direction

Which modulus is applicable to both solids and fluids?

• Shear modulus

• Young's modulus

• Bulk modulus

• Elastic modulus

What does the prefix 'an-' mean?

• Opposite

• Not

• Different

• Same

What does bulk modulus measure?

• Resistance to tensile forces

• Resistance to compressive environments

• Resistance to shear forces

• Resistance to bending forces

In which materials can the bulk modulus value be different along different axes?

• Gases

• Plasmas

• Liquids

• Solids

What does AV measure in the context of bulk modulus?

• Change in volume

• Change in temperature

• Change in density

• Change in pressure

What does anisotropic mean?

• Same in all directions

• Different in all directions

• Opposite of isotropic

• Not isotropic

What is the formula for bulk modulus?

• B = V / DeltaP

• B = DeltaV / DeltaP

• B = DeltaP / V

• B = (- V DeltaP) / (DeltaV)

In a compressive environment, an object experiences pushing in from which sides?

• Top and bottom

• Front and back

• Left and right

• All sides

What is AV for an object that has been compressed?

• Positive

• Cannot be determined

• Negative

• Zero