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Stiffness of the spring can be increased by

(a) increasing the number of turns

(b) increasing the free length

(c) decreasing the number of turns

(d) decreasing the spring wire diameter

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This intriguing question comes from Closely-coiled Helical Spring and Compound Pendulum topic in portion Simple Harmonic Motion of Machine Kinematics

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Correct option is (c) decreasing the number of turns

For explanation: Stiffness of the spring can be decreased by increasing the number of turns and increased by decreasing the number of turns.

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