Find the elastic potential energy stored per unit volume in a steel wire of length…

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Problem

Find the elastic potential energy stored per unit volume in a steel wire of length

50\,\text{cm}

when it is stretched by

2\,\text{mm}

. The Young's modulus of the wire is

2.0\times10^{11}\,\text{N m}^{-2}