At first, during the experiment, Hooke found that the weight added to the spring was proportional to the elongation of the spring, and he tested his conjectures by many experiments. In 1678, Hooke wrote a spring paper, which introduced the results of experiments on elastic objects, laying the foundation for the development of material mechanics and elastic mechanics.
Spring dynamometer
In the early nineteenth Century, under the premise of a lot of experimental work in the former, British scientist Thomas Yang summed up the research results of Hooke and others, pointing out that if the elongation of the elastomer exceeds a certain limit, the material will break, and the law of elastic force is no longer applicable, and clearly points out the scope of application of the law of elastic force. (deformation beyond that scope is called elastic deformation).
At this point, after many scientists' hard work, we finally established the law of elastic force of objects accurately. In order to commemorate Hooke's pioneering work and achievements, later people call this Law Hooke's law.
Another law of Hooke's Law -- Zheng Xuan Hooke's law
Hooke's law was discovered by the British force scientist Hooke (Robert Hooke, 1635-1703) in 1678, and Hooke's law was interesting. He published a Latin word puzzle in 1676, the riddle of ceiiinosssttuv. Two years later, he unveiled the answer: UT tensio SiC vis, meaning "the force is stretched (like that)", which is the central content of Hooke's law. In fact, earlier than he was before 1500, Zheng Xuan (127-200 AD) of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Confucian educator and educator of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wrote in annotation of "the quantity of the force and the three Jun" in the text of the "Kao Gong Ji". It correctly indicates the direct relationship between force and form, and Zheng Xuan's discovery is one thousand and five hundred years earlier than Hooke's. Therefore, some physicists believe that Hooke's law should be called "Zheng Xuan Hooke's law".
Hooke's discovery directly led to the birth of the spring dynamometer, the basic tool of measuring force, and until now, the physics laboratory is still widely used. The principle of spring dynamometer is also called "Hooke's law".