Question

9) Consider a plot of the displacement (x) vs. applied force (F) for an ideal elastic spring. The slope of the curve would beSelect one:A. the reciprocal of the displacement.B. the spring constant.C. the reciprocal of the acceleration of gravity.D. the reciprocal of the spring constant.E. the acceleration of gravity.

Answer 1

From Hooke's law

`F\propto x`
`F=kx`

Here, F is force and x is displacement and k is spring constant.

Hence the slope of ideal elastic spring will be the spring constant.