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  2. Hooke's law - Wikipedia

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    The law is named after 17th-century British physicist Robert Hooke. He first stated the law in 1676 as a Latin anagram. [1] [2] He published the solution of his anagram in 1678 [3] as: ut tensio, sic vis ("as the extension, so the force" or "the extension is proportional to the force"). Hooke states in the 1678 work that he was aware of the law ...

  3. Robert Hooke - Wikipedia

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    Robert Hooke FRS (/ h ʊ k /; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) [4] [a] was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. [5]

  4. 1678 in science - Wikipedia

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    Christiaan Huygens publishes his Traité de la Lumière/Treatise on Light, which states his principle of wavefront sources.; Robert Hooke publishes in full Hooke's law, the fundamental law of elasticity: stress (force) exerted is proportional to the strain (elongation) produced (ut tensio, sic vis ("as the extension, so the force" or "the extension is proportional to the force")).

  5. Elasticity (physics) - Wikipedia

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    This relationship is known as Hooke's law. A geometry-dependent version of the idea [a] was first formulated by Robert Hooke in 1675 as a Latin anagram, "ceiiinosssttuv". He published the answer in 1678: "Ut tensio, sic vis" meaning "As the extension, so the force", [5] [6] a linear relationship commonly referred to as Hooke's law.

  6. Spring (device) - Wikipedia

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    In 1676 British physicist Robert Hooke postulated Hooke's law, which states that the force a spring exerts is proportional to its extension. On March 8, 1850, John Evans, Founder of John Evans' Sons, Incorporated, opened his business in New Haven, Connecticut, manufacturing flat springs for carriages and other vehicles, as well as the machinery ...

  7. Newton-Hooke priority controversy for the inverse square law

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    Robert Hooke published his ideas about the "System of the World" in the 1660s, when he read to the Royal Society on March 21, 1666, a paper "concerning the inflection of a direct motion into a curve by a supervening attractive principle", and he published them again in somewhat developed form in 1674, as an addition to "An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations". [6]

  8. Funicular curve - Wikipedia

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    Analogies between the hanging chains and standing structures: an arch and the dome of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome (Giovanni Poleni, 1748). In architecture, the funicular curve (also funicular polygon, funicular shape, from the Latin: fūniculus, "of rope" [1]) is an approach used to design the compression-only structural forms (like masonry arches) using an equivalence between the rope with ...

  9. Savart wheel - Wikipedia

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    The Savart wheel is an acoustical device named after the French physicist Félix Savart (1791–1841), which was originally conceived and developed by the English scientist Robert Hooke (1635–1703). [1] A card held to the edge of a spinning toothed wheel will produce a tone whose pitch varies with the speed of the wheel.