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Originally Posted by bmitchell82
I have assumed a 20kg telescope which is about the limit that most people impose on their equipment, if you wanted to double the weight as it has been said before assuming that you are opperating within the elastic limits of the material (which you would be as nothing you have will go towards plastic limits) then you could easily say that a 40kg scope on a 100mm cantileaver would flex .0008 mm... or .8 micron as materials operate along a linear line in the Stress Vs Strain or Youngs modulus.
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Thanks for the analysis, Brendan. It's been a while since I took introductory mech eng subjects during undergrad (10 years, in fact!) but it makes sense to me.
One minor query... since you asked
I noticed that you highlighted the phrase
157% stronger in green... did you by any chance happen to lose a 0 as a typo/writo? Your working suggests 1570% stronger. Or 1463% stronger if we're being pedantic
