Hooke's Law (9-1)

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Question

Magnitude of the force you apply to each end of the object

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Review

According to Hooke’s law, which we first encountered in Section 6-5, the force magnitude $F$ is proportional to the distance $\Delta{L}$ that the spring stretches, provided that $\Delta{L}$ is small compared to the relaxed length of the spring, $L_0$ :