Slide 8

You may or may not come up with shear modulus values that agree with the textbook values for the material under consideration. One thing to think about is the assumption implicit in the formula relating shear modulus to sample stiffness. That is, that only the gauge section is deforming. Is this really true? If not, you might want to consider how you could either redesign the experiment to reduce the error due to this assumption, or think of a method to account for deformation in the gauge section.

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