Q1.A student investigated the behaviour of springs. She had a box of identical springs.
(a)
When a force acts on a spring, the shape of the spring changes.
The student suspended a spring from a rod by one of its loops. A force was applied
to the spring by suspending a mass from it.
Figure 1 shows a spring before and after a mass had been suspended from it.
Figure 1
Before
Loop
Coils
Rod
After
Mass
() State two ways in which the shape of the spring has changed.
1
2
