The spring is a marvel of human engineering and creativity. For one, it comes in so many varieties—the compression spring, the extension spring, the torsion spring, the coil spring, etc.—all of which ...

Explore the relationship between spring force and potential energy in this physics breakdown! Learn how springs store energy, how Hooke's Law applies, and how to calculate the potential energy in ...

A 350-year-old book believed to be the world's first scientific best-seller will go on display as part of a new exhibition at the National Library of Wales. Written by Robert Hooke in the 17th Century ...

Shortly after lunchtime on Wednesday 26 June 1689, Robert Hooke began delivering one of his regular lectures at the Royal Society, London. These were dramatic performances in which he would entertain ...

There are some scientific books that change the course of how we view and perceive the world around us. English naturalist Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species brought us natural selection and ...

The traditional monster is a composite. The unknown is put together from pieces of the known. It is a work of imagination as defined by Thomas Hobbes: "Imagination being only of those things which ...

To investigate experimentally the extension of a spring and how it is related to the applied force, and recall that the extension of a spring is directly proportional to the force applied, provided ...

Betteridge’s law of headlines states that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’. It’s the case with articles asking if Millennials are responsible for all of the ...