Quote (card_sultan @ Mar 29 2017 12:41pm)
no not no matter the force - only the force that that spring was designed to resist
Ok now we're getting somewhere.
A slinky, is a tension spring that is designed to resist almost zero force. as far as springs go it's incredibly weak.
here's an experiment you can do at home to prove this, take a slinky in the palm of your hand, turn it over and let go of almost all of the slinky but hold on to only a few coils. The slinky will fall to a distance, then spring back a bit closer to you, then fall almost as far as the first time it fell, then spring back almost as far as the first time it sprang back. it will repeat this and regress each time until eventually it meets equilibrium.
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at no point ever is a slinky designed to resist opposite forces at either end or becomes rigid in space
im going to need a definition to even figure out what this means, maybe a picture.
This post was edited by thesnipa on Mar 29 2017 12:46pm