3.

4 – Stretching & Compressing Student: _________________________________________

1. What is meant by an elastic material?

2. What is meant by the elastic limit of a material?
3. Look at the small graph at the top of the page. Does rubber obey Hooke's law? Explain
how you can tell from the graph whether this law is obeyed or not.
4. The table on the right shows the readings taken in a spring-stretching experiment:
a. What is the unstretched length of the spring?
b. Copy and complete the table,
c. Plot a graph of extension against load.
d. Mark the elastic limit on your graph,
e. Over which section of the graph line is the extension proportional to the load?
f. What load would produce a 35 mm extension?
g. What load would Load / N 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
make the spring stretch to a
length Length/mm 40 49 58 67 76 88 110
of 65 mm?
Extension/mm