There is a disk of cartilage between each pair of vertebrae in your spine. Cartilage has a Young’s modulus of approximately 1.0×106N/m2.
Suppose a disk is 0.50 cm thick and 4.0 cm in diameter. If this disk supports half the weight of a 85 kg person, by what fraction of its thickness does the disk compress?
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