Question

A pinball machine has balls of mass 134 g. The springs have a spring constant of 93.4N/m and a relaxed length of 10 cm. To what length must the spring be compressed if it is to give a ball a speed of 2.0 m/s?

Mar 15, 2016

1/2 kx^2 = 1/2 mv^2
solve for x

Mar 16, 2016

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