How to know if a spring obeys Hooke's Law?

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2023-01-27

How to know if a spring obeys Hooke's Law?

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Hunter Terry

Hunter Terry

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According to Hooke's law, within a material's elastic limit, the strain is inversely proportional to the applied stress. Determine whether or not the supplied spring complies with Hooke's law by noting each stretching force in Newtons and the corresponding length of the spring. Extension equals increased length minus unloaded length. x f - x i
As long as the limit of proportionality is not exceeded, a graph of stretching force against extension is a straight line through the origin since Hooke's Law is satisfied.

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