A cantilever shaft has a diameter of 6 cm and the length is 40cm, it has a disc of mass 125 kg at its free end. The Young’s modulus for the shaft material is 250 GN/m². Calculate the static deflection in nm.
(a) 0.001
(b) 0.083
(c) 1.022
(d) 0.065
This question was posed to me by my college professor while I was bunking the class.
This intriguing question comes from Natural Frequency of Free Longitudinal Vibrations topic in chapter Longitudinal and Transverse Vibrations of Machine Dynamics