Stretching spring

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  • Stretching spring
    • clamp stand,2 bosses,two clamps->place heavy weight on clamp stand so not fall over
    • Attach metre rule+spring(top of spring at 0 on metre rule)
    • bottom of spring has wooden splint attached as a pointer
    • Read position of pointer on metre rule-> unstretched length of spring
    • Hang 1 newton weight on spring-> read position then continue adding 1 N weights to spring and read
    • Calculate extension -> subtract length of unstretched spring from each reading