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A woman stands on a diving board that is attached to a wall on the left. The diving board has width and thickness . Deflection of the board from the horizontal position for is:

,

where is the mass of the woman (kg), is acceleration due to gravity, is distance from the wall (m), is the distance from the wall where the woman is standing (m), is the modulus of elasticity for plastic (Pa), and is the moment of inertia ().

For , the deflection of the board is:

,

where is maximum deflection.