If you transport your spring to the Moon, and repeat your experiment (both the Hooke’s Law and the oscillations), will either the spring constant or the period of oscillation be affected? If so, explain how and why. If not, explain why not.
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It does not depend on gravity. - The period of a mass-spring oscillator in the simple model is T = 2π√(m/k) for small, undamped oscillations around the equilibrium. Show more…
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