{"id":25279,"date":"2017-10-26T18:54:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=25279"},"modified":"2017-10-26T18:54:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:54:47","slug":"physics-what-does-elastic-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/physics-what-does-elastic-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics: what does <i>elastic<\/i> mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring physics, the term <em>elastic<\/em> can surface. The tutor discusses it.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"font-style:monospace;font-size:130%;background-color:#dedeff;white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-size:110%\"><strong>elastic<\/strong> <i>adj<\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>able to recover its original shape; able to resist permanent deformation after a distorting force is withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Referring to a rubber band, it&#8217;s not called <em>elastic<\/em> because it stretches, but rather, because it tends to regain its original shape after the stretching force is released.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Giancoli, Douglas C. <i>Physics<\/i>, 5th ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring physics, the term elastic can surface. The tutor discusses it. elastic adj: able to recover its original shape; able to resist permanent deformation after a distorting force is withdrawn. Referring to a rubber band, it&#8217;s not called elastic because &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/physics-what-does-elastic-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physics: what does <i>elastic<\/i> mean?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2567],"class_list":["post-25279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","tag-what-does-elastic-mean-in-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25279"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25305,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25279\/revisions\/25305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}