Hooke's law and elastic deformation

[ravsterphysics]

The Attempt at a Solution

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I know that spring A shows elastic deformation since it returned to its original shape once the stress removed and spring c shows plastic deformation and has been permanently extended so it won't return to its original shape.

BUT, I'm struggling to complete the graph for spring C especially since they want it to continue from where the line of spring A ends...Any ideas?

 

[Chestermiller]

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The Attempt at a Solution

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I know that spring A shows elastic deformation since it returned to its original shape once the stress removed and spring c shows plastic deformation and has been permanently extended so it won't return to its original shape.

BUT, I'm struggling to complete the graph for spring C especially since they want it to continue from where the line of spring A ends...Any ideas?

What are your ideas on how it looks?

 

[ravsterphysics]

What are your ideas on how it looks?

i would have started by drawing a line above the current line since the original length for C is obviously longer than A but after that I'm not sure, but since it has been deformed plastically and permanently I guess I could draw a line curve showing this?

 

[Chestermiller]

i would have started by drawing a line above the current line since the original length for C is obviously longer than A but after that I'm not sure, but since it has been deformed plastically and permanently I guess I could draw a line curve showing this?

The 3 springs are identical, so the line for spring C must start out superimposed on the line for spring A.