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... Little wonder it felt like I was beating my head against a wall.. You're absolutely correct (I think your last explanation was looking for the statement 'Fnet = 0' The derivation on wikipedia was simply for two springs, so I think it was more a matter of proving it using the...

Just like electronics :smile:

More practice needed methinks..\pm Thanks for that Tim, but could you do me a favour kenewbie and clarify what the problem actually was? I get that I missed the point, but I still can't find the point :redface: And that the powers cancel to 1, yes. Am I getting warmer? Or are you asking...

Just wondering if that documents maybe a wee bit complex for what he's after TVP?

Thanks :) I did try what I think you mean (simply adding 1/k[SIZE="1"]3 at the end of the previous equation) and got a similar result to my expected final value, but I wasn't sure if that mean't that it worked - using such small numbers. Unfortunately my understanding doesn't cover logic, only...

The reason you're only interested in positive numbers, is that you can only ever root a positive number. Consider that two positives are a positive, and two negatives are a positive. With the exclusion of imaginary numbers (i), there are no numbers which can square to equal a negative...

Hello all, newbie here Google led me to this thread: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=70094" which happens to be basically my question. I am doing an investigation on Hooke's Law for my VCE Physics class (Australian year 12, senior school). Thanks to wikipedia's derivation...