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