Physics A-Level
Fracture and breaking point
What Fracture and breaking point means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Fracture and breaking point
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The point at which the material breaks, shown where the graph ends and the force falls to zero.
Topics that use Fracture and breaking point
- Bulk properties of solids (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Breaking stress
- Brittle versus ductile force–extension graphs
- Conservation of energy
- Conservation of energy in mechanical systems
- Density
- Dissipation of energy during plastic deformation
- Elastic limit
- Elastic potential energy stored in deformed materials
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