Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
This video explains Hooke's law and how to determine the spring constant. Hooke's states that the force needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance is directly proportional to that distance. The force and the extension are directly proportional to each other. In other words, the greater the force the greater the extension. The law is named after 17th-century British physicist Robert Hooke. He first stated the law in 1676. The spring constant (k) describes the stiffness of a spring. Every spring has its own value for the spring constant. The higher the spring constant the greater the force is needed to stretch the spring. The SI unit for the spring constant is Newton per meter (N/m).
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This video explains Hooke's law and how to determine the spring constant. Hooke's states that the force needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance is directly proportional to that distance. The force and the extension are directly proportional to each other. In other words, the greater the force the greater the extension. The law is named after 17th-century British physicist Robert Hooke. He first stated the law in 1676. The spring constant (k) describes the stiffness of a spring. Every spring has its own value for the spring constant. The higher the spring constant the greater the force is needed to stretch the spring. The SI unit for the spring constant is Newton per meter (N/m).
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00:00 Spring Constant, Explanation
01:25 Explanation
05:48 Example Spring No. 1
11:55 Example Spring No. 2
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