Thursday, 21 February 2013

1.29 describe experiments to investigate how extension varies with applied force for helical springs, metal wires and rubber bands

The most common experiment for this goes like so:

  • Attach a spring to a newton meter and measure its length
  • Add a 50g weight and measure again
  • continue to add another weight and take another measurement
  • Do this up to 400g
by plotting a graph from the results from this you can see the extension increases with force; as each time a weight is added the spring gets longer.

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