A spring with a constant of 8 kgs−2 is lying on the ground with one end attached to a wall. An object with a mass of 7 kg and speed of 6 ms−1 collides with and compresses the spring until it stops moving. How much will the spring compress?
1 Answer
Aug 25, 2016
The initial kinetic energy is
This will be converted to spring potential energy, which will have the same value,
Rearranging to make the compression distance,