A stainless-steel orthodontic wire is applied to a tooth. The wire has an unstretched length of 3.62 cm and a radius of 0.13 mm. If the wire is stretched 0.13 mm, find the magnitude and direction of the force on the tooth. Disregard the width of the tooth and assume Young's modulus for stainless steel is 18 ✕ 1010 Pa. magnitude     N direction      ---Select--- toward the top of the page toward the bottom of the page toward the left toward the right into the page out of the page none of these

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A stainless-steel orthodontic wire is applied to a tooth. The wire has an unstretched length of 3.62 cm and a radius of 0.13 mm. If the wire is stretched 0.13 mm, find the magnitude and direction of the force on the tooth. Disregard the width of the tooth and assume Young's modulus for stainless steel is 18 ✕ 1010 Pa.

magnitude     N
direction      ---Select--- toward the top of the page toward the bottom of the page toward the left toward the right into the page out of the page none of these
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