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So here's his figure, and he's got plots of it here.
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Ut tensio (as the extension)
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sic vis (so the force).
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So it's linear, the force is how much you stretch it.
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And he has lots of different kinds of springs that do that.
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Here's this clock kind of spring, a coil spring,
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just stretching a wire.
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So the force is proportional to the extension.
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Or another way of saying it is,
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"The potential energy is proportional to the square of the extension."
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So it's a parabola.
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So that's Hooke's Law, and that's where we'll take up next time.