Hooke’s Law Explained

Hooke's Law is the proportional relationship between the force impacting a spring and the distance the spring extends or compresses. Hooke was a founding member and curator of the Royal Society. Incredibly intelligent, he intuitively grasped amazing scientific truths without always understanding the hard science beneath. The 1678 publication of Hooke's Lectures of Spring shared his theory of elasticity; now known as "Hooke’s Law". Hooke's Law states an elastic object must return to its original shape and size after removing [...]