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Hooke's law
(redirected from Spring equation)

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Hooke's law: see elasticity elasticity, the ability of a body to resist a distorting influence or stress and to return to its original size and shape when the stress is removed. All solids are elastic for small enough deformations or strains, but if the stress exceeds a certain amount known as
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Hooke's law [′hu̇ks ‚lȯ]
(mechanics)
The law that the stress of a solid is directly proportional to the strain applied to it.


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