A crane maker offers ropes for loads from half a tonne to ten tonnes. The steel breaks at 4.2×108Pa and the rule is a safety factor of 6. You will make the program find the rope radius each load needs, and the largest load a rope of radius 1.5cm may lift.
The idea. The rope must be able to hold the safety factor times the weight: σbreakπr2=smg. So r=πσbreaksmg.
Your tasks.
Work out the force each rope must be able to hold before breaking (the design force).
Work out the radius each load needs, in metres.
Find the largest load (in kg) that a rope of radius 1.5cm may lift.
Do the tasks in the editor first, and run the checker after each one. Its hints help when a check fails. When you are ready, compare your code with this solution.