Timeline for Is it impossible to stretch or compress a spring with a force other than $kx$?
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| Aug 25, 2021 at 2:32 | vote | accept | Akash | ||
| Aug 25, 2021 at 0:22 | comment | added | Chemomechanics | Sure, you could see this with real springs in dynamic situations. | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 23:55 | comment | added | Akash | Unequal forces exerted by each end of the spring, instead of just being kx? | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 23:47 | comment | added | Chemomechanics | Yes, unequal forces are possible depending on the loading and distribution of mass. | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 23:30 | comment | added | Akash | In the non-ideal case, how would a series of springs accelerate? Would adjacent springs not exert equal and opposite forces on each other in order to have net forces on each spring (assuming that a spring exerts the same restoring force on each end)? | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 23:16 | comment | added | Chemomechanics | Yes, those assumptions are made in the Wikipedia derivation you attached. | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 21:31 | comment | added | Akash | In the Wikipedia derivation, is it tacitly assumed that the springs are ideal and massless? Or is there another reason the forces would need to be equal? | |
| Aug 24, 2021 at 20:49 | history | answered | Chemomechanics | CC BY-SA 4.0 |