Your lab instructor has asked you to measure a spring constant using a dynamic method€”letting it oscillate€”rather than a static method of stretching it. You and your lab partner suspend the spring from a hook, hang different masses on the lower end, and start them oscillating. One of you uses a meter stick to measure the amplitude, the other uses a stopwatch to time 10 oscillations.
Your data are as follows:

Use the best-fit line of an appropriate graph to determine the spring constant.

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Mass (g) Time (s) Amplitude (cm) 6.5 100 7.8 150 5.5 9.8 200 6.0 10.9 250 3.5 12.4