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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Spring Away!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This lab demonstrates Hooke's Law with the use of springs and masses. Students attempt to determine the proportionality constant, or k-value, for a spring. They do this by calculating the change in length of the spring as different...
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Savvas Learning

Prentice Hall: Elasticity and Fracture

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Prentice Hall companion web site for the Giancoli Physics textbook. A series of interactive questions on the topic of elasticity and fracture. Questions 11 through 19 pertain to the stress-strain relationship for elastic...
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Other

Engineers Edge: Strenght of Materials

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has information about the strength of materials. Covers various types of stress and yeilding. Formulas included.
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Other

University of Wisconsin Green Bay: Faults and Earthquakes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is primarily set up as an outline and is loaded with graphs, maps, and images. It covers a variety of earthquake-related topics, such as what causes earthquakes, fault lines and structures, seismology, a historical look at...
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Difference Between Plastic and Elastic Deformation

For Students 9th - 10th
Clearly explains the characteristics of elastic and plastic deformation and the differences between them.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Science World: Hooke's Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Hooke's law and the strain-stress relationship is discussed and stated as an equation. The application of the law to springs is made and the elastic limit is discussed.