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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