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Hooke's law for an object under shear stress (9-9)

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Shear stress on the object: force applied to each of two opposite surfaces ivided by the area of each surface

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We can use the above definitions of shear stress and shear strain (shown in Figure 9-12) to rewrite Equation 9-8 as: