Weighing scale; consists of spring fixed at one end with a hook to attach an object at the other;works by Hooke's Law (the scale markings on the spring balance are equally spaced); can not measure mass, only weight.
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1 Curious to see whether fact would bear out theory, I had myself weighed with a spring balance .
2 Portland and I assisted at the capture, and the fish dragged the spring balance out by the roots.
3 Further, let the spring balance be at the free end of the cord toward which the pulley runs.
4 No further doubt could exist, and then Manuel, taking a spring balance (weighing up to 50 lbs.)
5 A fine Salter's spring balance was hung up, and a bale suspended to the hook; the finger indicated 105 lbs.
1 When the arm flings back, the shoulder ligaments experience about 100 Newton meters of torque.
2 The figures are in, and they're official: The 7.3-liter V12 under the bonnet produces 750 horsepower and 750 Newton meters (553 pound feet) of torque.
1 Take a spring scale registering at least eighty pounds and catch the hook under the string.
2 The bass Miss Margie had caught carried the spring scale down to twelve and a quarter.
3 We weighed her in installments with our spring scales ; she registered three hundred and five pounds.
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