SS Connection

Beginning from the 1670's theory of living force of German mathematician Gottfried

Leibniz (who was the first person who attempted a mathematical formula of the type of energy which is connected with motion, or kinetic energy), to the coining of the term “energy” in 1807 by physicist and English physician Thomas Young. Scottish physicists argue that the conservation of energy has its origin in one interpretation of Newton’s third law of motion (1687), but then in 1842, a man named Julius Robert Mayer was the one who discovered the Law of Conservation of Energy

Historical Connection with Elastic Potential Energy

A Tension Coil Spring

A spring has Elastic potential energy and springs were used throughout human history. When the Bronze Age began, more devices were used. Ctesibius of Alexandria created a way for making bronze with spring-like characteristics by producing an alloy of bronze with an increased proportion of tin, and then hardening it by hammering after it is cast.

In the 15th century, Coiled springs appeared early in door locks. Also in the same century, the first spring powered-clocks and evolved in the 16th century into the first large watches.

The British physicist Robert Hooke discovered the principle behind a springs' action in 1676. Also, the force it exerts is proportional to its extension, which is now called Hooke's law.

A Compression Coil Spring

A Variety of Conical Coil Springs