Aim:- To test three different springs.
Spring one has the length of 55.5
Spring two has the length of 59
Spring three has the length of 60.3
I want to find out how much mass the spring can take before not being able to go back to its orginal state.
Scientific knowledge: - Hook's Law if you stretch something with a steadily increasing force, then the length will increase steadily two. The most important thing in this experiment is not the total length but the extension. If the spring is stretched a bit to far it will behave inelastically and it won't follow Hook's law and it won't go back to its original shape. When drawing the graph and the results are in a straight line up to one point and then start to curve this is inelastic behaviour. The point the straight line ends up at is the elastic limit.
Spring one has the length of 55.5
Spring two has the length of 59
Spring three has the length of 60.3
I want to find out how much mass the spring can take before not being able to go back to its orginal state.
Scientific knowledge: - Hook's Law if you stretch something with a steadily increasing force, then the length will increase steadily two. The most important thing in this experiment is not the total length but the extension. If the spring is stretched a bit to far it will behave inelastically and it won't follow Hook's law and it won't go back to its original shape. When drawing the graph and the results are in a straight line up to one point and then start to curve this is inelastic behaviour. The point the straight line ends up at is the elastic limit.
