This is the set up to the question that we got for homework:
Pit and Plank. A wooden plank is placed over a pit that is 5.00 m wide. A physics student stands in the middle of the plank and begins to jump up and down such that she jumps upward from the plank two times each second. The plank...
Well if you are getting at Hooke's Law and the spring's constant increasing at a linear rate until the spring cannot stretch anymore, I do not believe that that is it...
The procedure for the experiment went somewhat like:
1) Measure radius with spring disconnected to get an initial radius...
I am in need for some help for a lab report. The issue has happened because there is a lab of 20 students that is being led by a recently retired NASA physicist trying to lead a team of graduate student (or camel jockeys as he puts it) and the lab instructions are being botched horribly...