About Hooke's Law
Stretch and compress springs to explore the relationships between force, spring constant, displacement, and potential energy! Investigate what happens when two springs are connected in series and parallel.
How to play Hooke's Law
Everything is hands-on: drag, click and experiment — the simulation reacts instantly. Stretch and compress springs to explore the relationships between force, spring constant, displacement, and potential energy!
Questions & answers
- What is Hooke's Law?
- Hooke's Law is a free interactive simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations (University of Colorado Boulder) that you can play right in your browser on crumble.lol — no downloads and no sign-up. Stretch and compress springs to explore the relationships between force, spring constant, displacement, and potential energy! Investigate what happens when two springs are connected in series and parallel.
- What can kids learn from Hooke's Law?
- It helps kids explore: explain the relationships between applied force, spring force, spring constant, displacement, and potential energy. describe how connecting two springs in series or parallel affects the effective spring constant and the spring forces. predict how the potential energy stored in the spring changes as the spring constant and displacement change.
- What age is Hooke's Law good for?
- It is designed for high school up to university, and curious kids outside that range can absolutely enjoy poking around it too.
- Is Hooke's Law free to play?
- Yes — Hooke's Law is completely free on crumble.lol and runs fully in your browser on computers and tablets.