An experimental setup consists of a small weight (approx. 20g) hung from a spring. Devise a...

An experimental setup consists of a small weight (approx. 20g) hung from a spring. Devise a method to estimate the spring's constant with the force sensor and another method without one. Describe your methodologies, results, and differences therein.

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When a load F suspended from lower free end of a spring hanging from a rigid support, it increases its length by amount x, then F is proportional x or F= k x, where k is constant of proportionality. It is called the force constant or the spring constant of the spring.

other method to find spring constant would to measure the time period of it's oscillations. extend the hanging mass by some distance A and then note the time taken by it to complete some measurable number of oscillations, from that you can find the time taken by it to complete one oscillation that would be it's time period and is =

so you can get a relation between time period and spring constant

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genius_generous answered 1 year ago

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