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An Investigation into Hooke's Law - The aim of this experiment is to find out if the amount of weight applied to an elastic or stretchable object is proportional to the amount the object's length increases by when the weight is applied.
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An Investigation into Hooke's Law Planning The aim of this experiment is to find out if the amount of weight applied to an elastic or stretchable object is proportional to the amount the object's length increases by when the weight is applied. Since Hooke's law is famous, and is used a lot, I have many resources and researchable information available to use. I took this from a website; http://www.efunda.com/formulae/solid_mechanics/mat_mechanics/hooke.cfm "Robert Hooke, who in 1676 stated, The power (Sic.) of any springy body is in the same proportion with the extension. He announced the birth of elasticity. Hooke's statement expressed mathematically is, where F is the applied force (and not the power, as Hooke mistakenly suggested), u is the deformation of the elastic body subjected to the force F, and k is the spring constant (i.e. the ratio of previous two parameters)." The equation will be very useful in calculating the change in size, and for...
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