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When a spring is compressed, the energy changes from kinetic to potential. Which best describes what is causing this change?
work
chemical energy
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Work.
When the spring is compressed the forces involved do work (force × displacement) that transfers the object's kinetic energy into elastic potential energy stored in the spring. Chemical energy isn’t involved unless a chemical process is driving the compression. In an ideal, lossless case 1/2 mv^2 = 1/2 kx^2 (energy transferred by work).
When the spring is compressed the forces involved do work (force × displacement) that transfers the object's kinetic energy into elastic potential energy stored in the spring. Chemical energy isn’t involved unless a chemical process is driving the compression. In an ideal, lossless case 1/2 mv^2 = 1/2 kx^2 (energy transferred by work).
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