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- DictionaryHooke's law/hʊks/
noun
- 1. a law stating that the strain in a solid is proportional to the applied stress within the elastic limit of that solid.
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Empirical physical law of mechanics that the force on a spring is proportional to its displacement
In physics, Hooke's law is an empirical law which states that the force (F) needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance (x) scales linearly with respect to that distance—that is, {{{1}}} Preview warning: unknown parameter "F s ..." (consider using |1=, {{!}}, {{=}}), where k is a constant factor characteristic of the spring (i.e., its stiffness), and x is small compared to the total p... Wikipedia