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\r\n Hooke's Law\r\n
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\r\n Hooke's law, named after British physicist Robert Hooke, is a fundamental principle in the area of mechanics of materials.\r\n Hooke's law relates the deformation of a spring to the force applied.\r\n Hooke, while experimenting with springs, found that the force required to stretch or compress a spring is linearly proportional to the extent of deformation.\r\n Mathematically, Hooke's law can be expressed as:\r\n $$ F \\propto \\delta $$\r\n where \\(\\delta = l - l_0\\) is the stretching or compression of the spring (deformed length minus original length).\r\n Expressed as an equality (by introducing a proportionality constant \\(k\\)):\r\n $$ F = k (l- l_0)$$\r\n where \\(F\\) is the load applied, \\(l\\) is the deformed length and \\(l_0\\) is the original length of spring. The proportionality factor \\(k\\) is known as spring constant.\r\n\r\n
\r\n Learn Interactively | Hooke's Experiment\r\n
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\n This MagicGraph offers a visually interactive illustration of Hooke's experiment.\r\n This illustration shows a spring hanging from the ceiling at one end. At the other end of spring attached is a massless hanger to which weights can be added.\n
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\n Tap on the
button to add weights and
button to remove.\r\n As you add or remove weights, observe how the deformation of the spring changes with applied load.\n