Hooke’s Law is obeyed up to the limit of proportionality. Beyond this point, stretching force and extension are no longer directly proportional and the graph begins to curve .

I suspect that when I was a teacher, I went for the knee-jerk “it’s useful if you want to be an engineer” response, or something similar. This isn’t a very satisfying answer, but I never really had ...

This linear elastic response has been formalized into the stress/strain relationship known as Hooke's Law: s = E e, where E is Young's modulus, an elastic constant. Materials obeying this relationship ...

Another is Hoskins, who embodies the failure of Hooke’s friends and family to preserve his legacy. It was Newton, of course, who ultimately took credit for gravity. People can judge for themselves ...

Hooke’s law states that the extension of a spring is in direct proportion to the load applied to it – a law which many materials obey and which culminated in the development of a balance spring.

When I get excited about a movie, my only way of calming down is to do a little physics. That explains why I found myself pondering Hooke's law and Young's modulus while watching a trailer for ...

Hooke’s Law (1635-1703) This law states that the extension of a spring is proportional to the tension stretching it. Doubling of the tension results in the doubling of the amount of stretch.

If you want to model the forces on a particle moving near the speed of light (3 x 10 8 m/s), then the plain version of Newton's 2 nd Law doesn't work. However, the momentum principle still works ...

In 1660, Hooke discovered a physical law that would later be named after him. Hooke's law states that the force needed to extend or compress a spring is proportional to the distance it is stretched.