Today's Rocket Words: Your 5 words and meanings to learn

elastic limit

the maximum extent to which a solid may be stretched without permanently altering its shape or breaking

Robert Hooke

an English scientist credited with Hooke's law of springs

extension

the increase in length from an object's original length

spring constant

a measure of how stretchy a spring system is

directly proportional

a proportion in which increasing one variable will cause another variable to also increase and vice versa

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