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all of the weight of your body is on that one leg.
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The whole weight of your body is on the femur,
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the whole weight of the body is actually right here.
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The whole weight of your body is on this very small--
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depends on the integrity of that very small piece of material.
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What we learned last time is that materials have elasticity.
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You don't want something that bends a lot there.
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You want something that's strong, that doesn't bend,
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even when there's a high stress applied to it
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like the stress of the weight of your body.
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Metals are really the materials
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that best can supply that kind of mechanical strength,