I looked up a few answers and found that spring means stiffness and resistance and that string means elastic and slack but both can mean tension. I understand what those words mean but not in this context. can someone give a good visual example? my original question was the difference between a slingshot with a string vs one with a string of your curious
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For springs I think of Hook’s Law. It has a stable length and it has a resistive force when pushed or pulled which is proportional to the length that is is compressed or stretched. This force acts to restore the stable length and often leads to oscillatory motion.
A string can’t be compressed — you can’t push a string. So it’s just something that you pull. As long as the force is not so strong as to break the string, then it’s a way of transferring where the force is applied. From a physics perspective, it makes me think of pulleys.
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