Today, physics Year 8 students completed a practical of science based on Hooke’s Law, which was done by stretching a spring.
Students can investigate how easily a material or spring stretches by hanging weights from it. Specifically, by measuring the extension of the spring with different forces (weights) they could observe (from a graph they created) that the force applied and extension of the spring are proportional and they have a linear relationship.
They also could observe that the spring has an elastic limit and if it happens, the spring deforms and does not come back to its original shape.
An enjoyable way to learn phyisics!