Objectives:
To discover Hook's law expressing the relationship between streching and restoring force in springs.
To calculate the effective spring constant when the springs are connected in series or parallel.
Curriculum Alignment:
IB
2.2. Forces
AP Physics 1:
2.3. Contact Forces
AP Physics C:Mechanics:
2.3 Newton’s Laws of Motion: Third Law
GCSE:
1.5.1 Effects of forces
NGSS:
HS-PS3-3 Forces and interaction
MEB:
11.1.6. Energy and Motion
Categories: Mechanics Laboratory
Hooke's law states the linear relationship between the magnitude of compression or extension of a spring and the restoring force exerted by the spring against this change. Moreover, you will observe the results of Hooke's law when the springs are connected in series or parallel.
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