He is known to many school students for his law of elasticity, which states that strain on a spring is proportional to stress. Hooke worked with Robert Boyle to make the first air pump ...

Purpose: To investigate experimentally the extension of a spring and how it is related to the applied force, and recall that the extension of a spring is directly proportional to the force applied ...

Record each stretching force in N and the corresponding length of the spring. The extension is the new length minus the unloaded length. Figure caption, Graph showing Hooke's Law, force is plotted ...

There’s a mystique in old keyboard circles around the IBM Model M, the granddaddy of PC keyboards with those famous buckling spring key switches. The original Model M was a substantial affair ...

The deadline came and went without a word from Hooke, and spring soon turned to summer. Finally, after seven months of silence, Halley decided to act. He cast an anxious eye in the direction of ...

Professor Brian Cox highlights the effect of forces in changing the shape of an object. Hooke’s Law is described using the example of a spring.

The spring constant, k, is different for different ... Figure caption, Graph showing Hooke's Law, extension is plotted against force Assuming the limit of proportionality (elastic limit) is ...

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We can see from the graph that as the stretching force increases the extension of the spring also increases ... This is known as Hooke’s law.

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A steel spring, a 100g mass hanger, 12, 100g masses, a retort stand, a boss and clamp, a clamp, a metre rule, an s-hook, a pointer, safety goggles, a slotted base.