You may have gathered from the preceding problem that the spring constant is not, in fact, an intensive quantity. In other words, it is a quantity that does not depend on the system size and gives no information whatsoever regarding the system size. Intensive quantities have an important feature: They can be used to characterize the system locally. The density is a good example of an intensive quantity. Suppose we make two springs using the same material, one is 10cm long and the other is 30 cm long. Using the formulas from the preceding problem, calculate the ratio k subscript 1 divided by k subscript 2of the respective spring constants