IB skill practice

Find work from a force-extension graph

Find the work done stretching a spring as the area under the force-extension graph (the triangle area = half force times extension).

Paper 1, Paper 2 1 marks Difficulty 2

Find work from a force-extension graph

The force-extension graph for a spring is a straight line from the origin. The work done is the area under the line. Find the work done in stretching the spring (the shaded triangle), in joules (J).