Answer 1:
I have published papers about forces in spider
silk and spider webs. Here is a link to
some news article about this work:
spider
silk
HHspider silk
Here's a link to a news
article about my friend, Prof. Cheryl Hayashi atUC
Riverside, and her spider silk research:
spidersilk
That doesn't give you much info about F = m a. We tend to be more interested in Work = Force x Distance.
We measure the forces as we stretch the silk
various distances - nanometers with our Molecular
Force Probes and millimeters when we hang tiny
weights onto lengths of spiderweb.
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