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You can chew through very tough objects with your incisors

Chapter 11, Problem 69

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Problem 69PE

You can chew through very tough objects with your incisors because they exert a large force on the small area of a pointed tooth. What pressure in pascals can you create by exerting a force of 500 N with your tooth on an area of 1.00 mm2 ?

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QUESTION:

Problem 69PE

You can chew through very tough objects with your incisors because they exert a large force on the small area of a pointed tooth. What pressure in pascals can you create by exerting a force of 500 N with your tooth on an area of 1.00 mm2 ?

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A stronger object can be broken easily by our incisors by exerting a larger force on the object. Inside our mouth, a huge pressure is applied on the objects if we chew them in a smaller area. We are going to find the pressure exerted on the object by the applied force.

The force exerted

The area of the tooth

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