Learn about and revise shape-changing forces, elasticity and the energy stored in springs with GCSE Bitesize Physics.

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Credit: Svjo When a force is applied to a spring, it is placed in either tension or in compression, which allows the spring to store energy. When the spring is released the stored elastic potential ...

This was a great question from my algebra-based physics course (rephrased just a bit) “Where does Hooke’s law for the force a spring exert come from? How do you get from that to work done by a ...

Oh, what about a traditional physics spring? Like the kind that you use in physics lab. What happens when one of these is stretched too far? Here is a similar plot of force vs. position for a spring.