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A cylindrically shaped piece of collagen (a substance found in the body in connective tissue) is being stretched by a force that increases from The length and radius of the collagen are, respectively, 2.5 and 0.091 cm, and Young's modulus is
If the stretching obeys Hooke's law, what is the spring constant k for collagen?
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a) We can start from the Hooke’s law. So, the force that must be applied to stretch or compress an ideal spring is given by following equation.
In this equation, with k is the marked the spring constant and with x is the marked displacement of the spring from its unstrained length.
From the Hooke’s law, spring constant is:
As the force in this case is defined as:
equation 1 becomes:
Continue derivation,
Substitute values into equation 3 and solve,
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