According to Hook’s law force is proportional to
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According to Hooke's law, within elastic limit for elastic material, material act as a spring, which reforms its shape after we deform it by some external force. Hence, a restoring force occurs

$\therefore F =- kx \quad k =$ spring constant

$\therefore F \propto x$

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