Hooke's law behaviour
What Hooke's law behaviour means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: OCR
For a material obeying Hooke's law the line is straight through the origin, so force is proportional to extension.
The initial straight section through the origin of a stress–strain curve, where stress is proportional to strain.
Topics that use Hooke's law behaviour
- Bulk properties of solids (AQA A-Level)
- Mechanical properties of matter (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Elastic limit
- Hooke's law
- Tensile strain
- Tensile stress
- Young modulus
- Breaking stress
- Brittle
- Brittle versus ductile force–extension graphs
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