HOOKE’S LAW AND DEFORMATION

PRACTICE QUESTIONS

1.) An object changes its length from 3 cm to 5 cm. How much force was needed if its spring constant is 20 N/cm?

2) A spring is compressed from 7 cm to 4 cm. If 60 Newtons of force was needed, what is the spring constant?

3)A spring has a natural length of 20cm. When a load of 50 N is applied, the spring becomes 22cm long.

a) How great an extension does the 50N force cause?

b) What extension would you expect for a 150N force?

c) What will the total length be under this force?

4) The diagram shows an elastic spring with a 100g metal slug attached to it.

If the original length of the spring was 7cm, what would be its length if a 300g mass were
10cm
attached to it?

e/cm
5) The graph shows an extension vs. Force graph for a stretched spring with
a natural length of 25cm.
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a) What is the length when the stretching force is 10N?

10 F/N

b) What is the extension when the stretching force is 15N?

c) What is the length when the stretching force is 15N?

d) What is the length when the stretching force is 1000N, according to Hooke’s Law?

e) Is this a reasonable answer? Why or why not?

6) In a spring experiment, the results were:

Load/N 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Length/mm 50 58 70 74 82 90 102 125
Extension/mm

a) What is the length of the unstretched spring?

b) Complete the table.
c) Plot a graph of extension vs. Load, indicating which one of your results is wrong
d) Mark the elastic limit of your graph.
e) What load would give an extension of 30 mm?
f) What would be the spring length for a load of 4.5N?