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Q. Hooke's law defines

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According to Hooke's law, within the elastic limits stress is directly proportional to strain.
i.e. $stress \, \propto \, strain$ or $\frac{stress}{strain}=constant=E$
The constant $E$ is called the modulus of elasticity.