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Hooke's law
Know how civil and environmental engineers understand the mechanics of thin structures and how they use geometry to study the deformation process
illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
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Hooke’s law: References & Edit History

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Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Hooke’s Law and a Simple Spring. Dec 04, 2024
Add new Web site: Georgia Institute of Technology - Center for Non-Linear Science - Hooke’s law. Oct 25, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Central Florida Pressbooks - Hooke’s Law: Stress and Strain Revisited. Oct 11, 2023
Add new Web site: BBC Bitesize - Hooke's law. Jul 07, 2023
Add new Web site: BCcampus Open Publishing - Hooke’s Law. May 21, 2023
Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Hooke’s Law. Dec 12, 2022
Media added. Jan 13, 2020
Corrected display issue. Dec 15, 2017
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Intro to springs and Hooke's law. Mar 06, 2016
Illustration of Hooke's law added. Feb 24, 2011
Image illustrating Hooke's law added. Jan 17, 2011
Article revised and updated. Jun 01, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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