Sunday, December 2, 2007

springs




At home, when your parents ask which spring is harder to pull then the other, you can do a simple physics experiment to figure it out. Just hang the two springs and put equal weights on both. The one the pulls down farther from the starting position has a lower spring constant, or k. Because of the equation F=kx where F is the weight and x is the distance it stretches. Yay for physics!

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