On your first trip to Planet X you happen to take along a 200g mass, a 40.0 cm long spring a meter tick and a stop watch. You're curious about the acceleration due to gravity on Planet X, where ordinarty tasks seem easier than on earth, but you cant find this info in your visitors guide. One night you suspend the spring from the ceiling in your room and hang the mass from it. You find that the mass stretches the spring by 31.2 cm. you ten pull the mass down 10.0 cm and release it. With the stopwatch you find that 10 oscillations take 14.5 s. Can You now satisfy your curiosity?
I have no clue what to do for this question.
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Use your equations for harmonic motion. You have period (and then frequency), you have spring constant (force/distance), and initial amplidude.
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