Tensile and compressive forces, Hooke's law and the spring constant, stress, strain and the Young modulus, and elastic strain energy.
Tensile and compressive deformation
A pair of opposite forces can stretch (tensile) or compress (compressive) a solid. The extension is the increase in length.
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