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Consider a spring and a rubber band. Both have elastic properties, which means that as their lengths
increase, they exert increasing amounts of force. Let “stretch length” represent the di erence between
the spring or rubber band’s length while it exerts force and its length while it exerts no force.
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By plotting on a graph with the x-axis being distance stretched and the y-
axis being force in newtons, you can nd the spring constant of both the
spring and the rubber band IF and only if the graph shows that force is
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The evidence does prove this claim for the
spring but not for the rubber band. This is
because the line of the graph for the
spring was a straight, positive line,
showing that force was directly
proportional to stretch length. However, for
the rubber band, the line was curved and
not straight, thus showing they weren’t
directly proportional.

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