Asked by Harold
A cart is launched on an air track with a certain speed from the force of a compressed spring. If you wanted to launch the cart at twice the speed, the spring should be compressed by?
I say twice as much.
I say twice as much.
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Answered by
drwls
That is correct. You need four times the kinetic energy, but you get it with twice the spring compression
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