Student Researched Lab Experiment to evaluate Spring Constants Introduction In this experiment we evaluated Hooke’s law by measuring the stretch of a spring with incremental masses. A motion detector provided position measurements and the masses were added 100 grams at a time. To calculate the spring constant we utilized the least squares method of data fitting on a Force by distance graph. Samples Calculations Line of Best Fit: f(x) = 0.202x + 16.5 xi-mean height, yi-force of gravity (1) Mean […]
