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What is Hooke’s Law ?

What is Hooke’s Law ?

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Apoorva Arora IIT Roorkee
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9 years ago
Hooke's lawis a principle ofphysicsthat states that theforce needed to extend or compress aspringby some distance is proportional to that distance. That is:

F = kx

where k is a constant factor characteristic of the spring, itsstiffness. The law is named after 17th century British physicistRobert Hooke. He first stated the law in 1660 as aLatinanagram.

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