A wooden wheel of radius
R is made of two semicircular parts. The two parts are held together by a ring made of a metal strip of cross sectional area
S and length
L.
L is slightly less than
2ฯR. To fit the ring on the wheel, it is heated so that its temperature rises by
ฮT and it just steps over the wheel. As it cools down to surrounding temperature, it presses the semicircular parts together. If the coefficient of linear expansion of the metal is
ฮฑ, and its Young's modulus is
Y, the force that one part of the wheel applies on the other part is:
