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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=physics">physics</a>, <b>Hooke's law</b> is an <a href="page.php?w=empirical_law">empirical law</a> which states that the <a href="page.php?w=force">force</a>  needed to extend or compress a <a href="page.php?w=spring_%28device%29">spring</a> by some distance  <a href="page.php?w=Proportionality_%28mathematics%29">scales linearly</a> with respect to that distance--that is, {{math = kx}},}} where  is a constant factor characteristic of the spring (i.e., its <a href="page.php?w=stiffness">stiffness</a>), and  is small compared</p><p>
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