Question

A 16,000 kg F-18 (jet fighter) lands at 52 m/s on an aircraft carrier, its tail hook snags the cable to slow it down. The cable is attached to a spring with a spring constant of 60,000 N/m. How far does the spring stretch to stop the jet?

Nov 17, 2011

Related Questions

A 500-kg elevator's cable snaps at a height of 15m. fortunately, there's a spring at the bottom of... An unstretched spring with spring constant 37 N/cm is suspended from the ceiling. A 3.3 kg mass is a... A 21700 kg train is reaching the end of the line. In order to slow down, the front of the train snag... A mess is attached to a spring. The rest position of the spring is 45 cm. The mass is then pulled to...