What happens when you push a spring? how is this different than pulling it? (hooke’s law)

When you push a spring you are putting force on it, or rather forcing the spring onto its self. This is different than pulling the spring because when you push it and let go it will spring but if you pull it its would not move as far as it would if you push it. Pulling the spring would most likely deform the spring will pushing it would cause it to spring back into place.

Hooke's law states that the force that extends or compresses a spring by some distance scales linearly with respect to that distance.

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explanation:

the box does not move because you need to use a force greater than 300 n. you are only using 50 n. it needs to at least be 301 n for the box to move because then it is an unbalanced force and it will move the way that the greater force is pushing it. if you use only 300 n it will be a balanced force and will not move because the force you are exerting on the   box is the same as its force.

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im sorry if i went too in depth, i am going to include a link to a video on khan academy that will explain this.   hope that you like the video and that it explains more in detail to you.

that is the link.