Forces and springs

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Question 1
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A student is carrying out an investigation to measure the extension of a vertically hung spring as various weights are added.

A spring suspended from a clamp stand next to a vertical metre ruler. Weights are hung from the bottom of the spring. The student is shown looking down at the bottom of the spring at an angle, attempting to read the position against the ruler scale.

The student finds it difficult to obtain highly accurate and consistent readings of the spring's length because of potential parallax error.

Describe one modification the student could make to the apparatus or procedure to improve the accuracy of their measurements.

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