Consider a plot of the displacement (x) as a function of the applied force (F) for an ideal elastic spring. The slope of the curve would be

A) the acceleration due to gravity.
B) the spring constant.
C) the reciprocal of the acceleration of gravity.
D) the mass of the object attached to the spring.
E) the reciprocal of the spring constant.


E

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