Blog Post #5 (Best Friends Forever)

Question: Why do you think New Pretty Town advocates bungee jumping?
Answer: I think that they take it as a symbol of how they were almost as ugly as can be, then they were pulled back from being ugly, and were turned beautiful.
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Years before the discovery of the land diving natives on Pentecost Island, a British mathematician named Robert Hooke was discovering the physics of bungee jumping. He began working as an assistant to the famous scientist Robert Boyle in 1653. However, it wasn’t until 1660 that he formulated and wrote down Hooke’s Law of Elasticity. In laymen’s terms, Hooke’s law basically tells us how much tension a spring can endure, and the maximum length it will reach. Hooke’s law can be used on any material that is considered linear-elastic, or stretching lengthwise. Oddly enough, rubber is usually considered non-linear, because variations of stress and temperature can have a significant impact on the elasticity of the rubber.
http://www.readarea.com/physics-of-bungee-jumping/