Hooke’s Law and Springs

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