{"id":203360,"date":"2025-03-19T06:34:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T06:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=203360"},"modified":"2025-03-19T06:34:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T06:34:45","slug":"which-of-the-following-are-si-units-of-youngs-modulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/19\/which-of-the-following-are-si-units-of-youngs-modulus\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of the following are SI units of Young&#8217;s modulus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Which of the following are SI units of Young&#8217;s modulus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N\/m \u00b7 s2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>kg\/m2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>kg \u00b7 m\/s2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>kg\/m \u00b7 s2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>kg \u00b7 m2\/s2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\"><strong>The correct answer and explanation is :<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct SI unit of Young&#8217;s modulus is <strong>N\/m\u00b2<\/strong>, which is equivalent to <strong>kg\/(m\u00b7s\u00b2)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. <strong>Definition of Young\u2019s Modulus:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Young&#8217;s modulus (E) is a measure of the stiffness of a material and is defined as the ratio of stress to strain:<br>[<br>E = \\frac{\\text{Stress}}{\\text{Strain}}<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Stress<\/strong> is force per unit area:<br>[<br>\\text{Stress} = \\frac{\\text{Force}}{\\text{Area}} = \\frac{N}{m^2}<br>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Strain<\/strong> is dimensionless (it is the ratio of change in length to original length).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Since strain has no units, the unit of Young\u2019s modulus is the same as that of stress:<br>[<br>E = \\frac{\\text{N}}{m^2}<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. <strong>SI Unit of Force:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Force (Newton) is given by Newton&#8217;s second law:<br>[<br>F = m \\cdot a<br>]<br>where:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>( m ) is mass in kilograms (kg),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>( a ) is acceleration in meters per second squared (m\/s\u00b2).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Since acceleration has units of ( \\text{m\/s}^2 ), the unit of force (Newton) is:<br>[<br>1 \\text{ N} = 1 \\text{ kg} \\cdot \\text{m\/s}^2<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. <strong>SI Unit of Young\u2019s Modulus:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the unit of force, Young\u2019s modulus has the unit:<br>[<br>E = \\frac{N}{m^2} = \\frac{\\text{kg} \\cdot \\text{m\/s}^2}{m^2} = \\frac{\\text{kg}}{\\text{m} \\cdot \\text{s}^2}<br>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the correct unit from the given options is <strong>kg\/(m\u00b7s\u00b2)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. <strong>Analysis of Given Options:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>N\/m\u00b7s\u00b2<\/strong> \u2192 Incorrect (not stress-related).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>kg\/m\u00b2<\/strong> \u2192 Incorrect (no time dimension).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>kg\u00b7m\/s\u00b2<\/strong> \u2192 Incorrect (this is Newton, not modulus).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>kg\/m\u00b7s\u00b2<\/strong> \u2192 <strong>Correct<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>kg\u00b7m\u00b2\/s\u00b2<\/strong> \u2192 Incorrect (this is Joule, unit of energy).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the following are SI units of Young&#8217;s modulus? N\/m \u00b7 s2 kg\/m2 kg \u00b7 m\/s2 kg\/m \u00b7 s2 kg \u00b7 m2\/s2 The correct answer and explanation is : The correct SI unit of Young&#8217;s modulus is N\/m\u00b2, which is equivalent to kg\/(m\u00b7s\u00b2). Explanation: 1. Definition of Young\u2019s Modulus: Young&#8217;s modulus (E) is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}