Is this Image about boat resistance calculations correct?

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  1. messabout
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    messabout Senior Member

    Any rope will stretch to some extent depending on the load it is exposed to. Material with a high elastic modulus will stretch less for a given load but it will still stretch, and it will have some rebound if parted suddenly. I do not want to be in the path of 6x19 or any other rope, wire or otherwise, when it breaks because of overloading.
     
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  2. jehardiman
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    jehardiman Senior Member

    Yep.
    BlueBell, think about it this way. Model the rope as two pieces of mass (m= m1+m2) that have length (L = l1+l2) and two spring (F=x1*k*(l2/L)= x2*k*(l1/L) where x is the stretch in each piece. The energy stored in each section of the rope is (xn^2*k)/2. When the rope breaks the mass of the rope is accelerated back by the stored energy available in the broken part, i.e. all potential energy is converted to kenitic energy v=sqrt(xn^2*k/mn). So if k is very large and mn is very light; the rope could come flying back with considerable velocity even if xn is rather small.
     
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