Elasticity Example, the Drawn Bow

Elasticity Example, the Drawn Bow

Physics

As one can see this image depicts an archer pulling back on a bowstring. The diagram here serves two major purposes. Firstly, it allows those readers who might not know what a bow and arrow is follow along. And secondly, it allows the reader to visualize, through one diagram, two different states the bow might be in: drawn and undrawn. The idea that an object might be morphed into two different states is important to the idea of elastic objects.

Mary Swift

First Lessons on Natural Philosophy for Children

W.M. JAS. HAMERSLEY

1851