Part A Learning Goal: To understand the meaning of Young's modulus, to perform some real-bife calcuiations related to stretching steel, a common construction material, and to introduce the concept of breaking stress. Hookels law states that for springs and other "elastic" objects
F=k\Delta x
where
F
is the magnitude of the stretching force,
\Delta x
is the corresponding elongation of the spring from equilibrium, and
k
is a constant that depends on the geometry and the material of the snrinn lf the deformatinnc are small enough most materials in fart