A leather belt 100 mm wide and 10 mm thick with a safe permissible stress of 1.5 MPa is used for transmitting a maximum power of 15 KW. If the density of belt material is 1 g/cm^3, the velocity of belt for maximum power transmission will be ________
(a) 22.36 m/s
(b) 34.13 m/s
(c) 24.98 m/s
(d) 12.12 m/s
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This intriguing question originated from Power Transmission System in chapter Ignition and Power Transmission of Farm Machinery