... is no danger of the springs wire breaking. Food will not be consumed in the laboratory nor will drinks be drunk. People will not run in the laboratory. Safety spectacles will be worn so that if, by some unforeseen reason, the spring were to break, eyes will be kept safe. Fair test This will be a fair test by all other variables, within my control, being kept constant. The temperature for this investigation will be room temperature, approximately 23?C. The same spring will be used. The same displacement for the spring will be used. The same spring will be used because of differences in the spring constant. The number of oscillations the spring hast to complete will always be 10. Scientific knowledge When using springs in an investigation, it helps to revise/research a law called Hooke's Law. This is a formula that states that the force acting on a spring and the spring extension ...

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