Steel is very stiff, and Young's modulus for steel is unusually large, 2 x 1011 N/m2. A cube of steel 17 cm on a side supports a load of 80 kg that has the same horizontal cross section as the steel cube. (a) What is the magnitude of the "normal" force that the steel cube exerts on the load? (b) What is the compression of the steel cube? That is, what is the small change in height of the steel cube due to the load it supports? Give your answer as a positive number. lcompression| The compression of a wide, stiff support can be extremely small

Acommon technique in analysis of scientific data is normalization. the purpose of normalizing data is to eliminate irrelevant constants that can obscure the salient features of the data. the goal of this experiment is to test the hypothesis that the flux of light decreases as the square of the distance from the source. in this case, the absolute value of the voltage measured by the photometer is irrelevant; only the relative value conveys useful information. suppose that in part 2.2.2 of the experiment, students obtain a signal value of 162 mv at a distance of 4 cm and a value of 86 mv at a distance of 5.7 cm. normalize the students' data to the value obtained at 4 cm. (divide the signal value by 162.) then calculate the theoretically expected (normalized) value at 5.7 cm.