Compute a coil spring's rate given its material properties and dimensions.

A spring's rate is extremely sensitive to its wire diameter, since rate is proportional to wireDiameter⁴. Try modifying the diameter by 0.010" and see what happens. If you expect to get good results from this calculator, you must measure your springs very accurately.

Count the number of coils starting at one end of the spring as it touches the perch, then count coils along its longitudinal axis. You can have fractional counts, so estimate how much of a turn the spring has left at the last coil above the other perch. The example to the left has 4.5 coils.