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Q: What is a force that stretches materials apart?
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What is the force that stretches or pulls apart the crust of the earth?

Tension stretches or pulls apart the crust.


What is the force that stretches or pulls apart the earths crust?

Generally materials that fly apart are being pushed rather than pulled. We could devise a mechanism that pulls materials apart - for example, if we attach two hooks and pull them on winches in opposite directions. In that case we would describe the force as mechanical in nature. But it is more likely that things get pushed apart by their own internal pressure.


What is the force that stretches or pull apart the crust called?

When there is a divergent boundary, regardless if the plates are ocean-ocean or continental-continental, tensional stress pulls on the crust. Rocks have weaker tensional strength than compressive strength, so they are easier to pull apart.


What is a force that stretches rock called?

Tensile force / stress.


What is all about the stress-strain relation in tension?

When you pull on something, it stretches a bit. Even materials you think are rigid, stretch if enough force is applied. The numbers are very important since they say a lot about the characteristics of materials. Of course all this depends on the thickness of the thing that stretches, so engineers use units that include the cross-sectional area. Strain (Think INch) is the deflection or distance the material stretches. Stress (Think pRESSure) is the force/cross-section, perhaps PSI.


The type of stress that stretches and pulls a body apart is?

Tension


If two materials have a weak magnetic domain?

If two materials have a weak magnetic domain then their lines of force will be sketched as farther apart. This is the convention for drawings of magnetic fields.


What force stretches the springs on a trampoline?

the support is y


An elastic force that stretches or pulls on the molecules in matter is?

Tension


What is the difference between torsion force and tension force?

if the force twists an obect, it is called torsion and if the force that stretches an object is called tension.


What will happen when the elastic spring force is reduced?

The elastic spring stretches more when subjected to the same force.


Which stress force pulls on the crust and stretches rock?

tension