Question

In Hooke's law, what does k represent?
length, mass, stiffness or thickness of a spring

Answer 1

A constant, represents the some idiosynthesis of the object(such as strings)

Answer 2

a synthesis one

Answer 3

include many aspects

Answer 4

I'm sorry I'm not following

Answer 5

still confused

Answer 6

because the resilience has the only connection to the deformation, any other qualities(mass, stiffness or thickness) doesn't effect the force.Since F=kx. so according to the experiment, k is a constant and represents other characteristics except x(length deformation) and what's more, scientists got the result without defining the k. You should have noticed that the k hass no unit~

Answer 7

it is a number ;a ratio

Answer 8

@Frank_Shank Thanks