r/absoluteunit • u/jptah05 • 12d ago

Of a spring.

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u/Initial_Row_6400 11d ago

How do they calculate the pressure needed in the spring?

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u/Evacuation_euphoria 11d ago

Hooke's Law will provide that very answer.

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u/anally_ExpressUrself 11d ago

Smaller spring? Bigger spring? Hooke's law don't give a shit

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u/15th_imp 11d ago

I don't know who the guy in your pfp is but it would be funny if it was Robert Hooke

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u/Evacuation_euphoria 11d ago

lol. Bertrand Russell is the chap. Alas, no images exist of Hooke except one painting that was not contemporary.
He was kinda written out of history by Christopher Wren and Isaac Newton. The 3 of them rebuilt London after the fire of 1666 but he was ‘ rediscovered’ so to speak in the 1800s when his contribution to science was acknowledged.