State and Explain Hooke’s Law with Derivation

Hooke’s Law States that;

In the case of Elastic Materials, the strain of the body (change in the body shape) depends on the applied stress (applied force on the body) within the Elastic Limit of the body.

Following are the Example of Hooke’s Law;

• A balloon can stretch. When molecules of air are blown into it, it gets bigger. In the same way, when it is emptied, its size goes down. Hooke’s law says that how big or small the balloon receives depends on how hard air is pushed into it. This is how the balloon works.
• Hooke’s law says that the force needed to stretch or squeeze a spring by a certain distance is directly related to that distance. A constant factor characteristic of a spring is how stiff it is. The property of elasticity says that stretching a spring twice as long takes twice as much force.

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