A 1.00-kg object slides to the right on a surface having a coefficient of kinetic friction 0.250. The object has a speed of vi = 3.00 m/s when it makes contact with a light spring that has a force constant of 50.0 N/m. The object comes to rest after the spring has been compressed a distance d. The object is then forced toward the left by the spring and continues to move in that direction beyond the spring’s unstretched position. Finally, the object comes to rest a distance D to the left of the unstretched spring. Find a) The distance of compression d, b) The speed v at the unstretched position when the object is moving to the left, and c) The distance D where the object comes to rest.
A 1.00-kg object slides to the right on a surface having
a coefficient of kinetic friction 0.250. The object has a speed
of vi = 3.00 m/s when it makes contact with a light spring that
has a force constant of 50.0 N/m. The object comes to rest
after the spring has been compressed a distance d. The object
is then forced toward the left by the spring and continues to
move in that direction beyond the spring’s unstretched position.
Finally, the object comes to rest a distance D to the left of the
unstretched spring. Find
a) The distance of compression d,
b) The speed v at the unstretched position when the object is
moving to the left, and
c) The distance D where the object comes to rest.
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