CAPE Physics Unit 1 · 2016 · Paper 2 · Question 3(a)(i)

After a lesson on Hooke's law, a student is asked to measure the mass of a rock sample using a steel spring, standard masses and a metre rule. The student measured the unstretched length of the spring and then set up the arrangement shown in Figure 5.

State Hooke's law.

This question uses a figure or table from the paper — you'll see it when you practise.