Hooke’s law

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Diagram illustrating Hooke's law with three vertical springs: the first spring is unstretched, the second is stretched by a force F with extension x, and the third is stretched further by force 2F with extension 2x, showing the proportional relationship between force and extension.

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illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: IOPscience - Physics Education - Reversing the sign of Hookes law.	Emily Rodriguez	Nov 06, 2026
	Add new Web site: Michigan State University Libraries - Introductory Physics for the Health and Life Sciences I - Hookes Law: Stress and Strain Revisited.	Grace Young	Dec 19, 2025
	Add new Web site: American Physiological Society - Hooke?s law: applications of a recurring principle (PDF).	Yamini Chauhan	Feb 24, 2025
	Add new Web site: OpenStax - College Physics 2e - Hooke�s Law: Stress and Strain Revisited.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jan 18, 2025
	Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Hooke?s Law and a Simple Spring.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 04, 2024
	Add new Web site: Georgia Institute of Technology - Center for Non-Linear Science - Hooke?s law.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 25, 2024
	Add new Web site: Atlantic Canada Pressbooks Network - Fundamentals of Heat, Light & Sound - Hookes Law: Stress and Strain Revisited.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 11, 2023
	Add new Web site: BBC Bitesize - Hooke's law.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jul 07, 2023
	Add new Web site: BCcampus Open Publishing - Hooke?s Law.	Gloria Lotha	May 21, 2023
	Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Hookes Law.	Aakanksha Gaur	Dec 12, 2022
	Media added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jan 13, 2020
	Corrected display issue.	Adam Augustyn	Dec 15, 2017
	Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Intro to springs and Hooke's law.	Emily Rodriguez	Mar 06, 2016
	Illustration of Hooke's law added.	Erik Gregersen	Feb 24, 2011
	Image illustrating Hooke's law added.	Erik Gregersen	Jan 17, 2011
	Article revised and updated.	William L. Hosch	Jun 01, 2006
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998