A basket of negligible weight hangs from a vertical spring scale of force constant 1500 N/m. (a) If you suddenly put a 3.0-kg adobe brick in the basket, find the maximum distance that the spring will stretch. (b) If, instead, you release the brick from 1.0 m above the basket, by how much will the spring stretch at its maximum elongation?

A basket of negligible weight hangs from a vertical spring scale of force constant 1500 N/m. (a) If you suddenly put a 3.0-kg adobe brick in the basket, find the maximum distance that the spring will stretch. (b) If, instead, you release the brick from 1.0 m above the basket, by how much will the spring stretch at its maximum elongation?

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A basket of negligible weight hangs from a vertical spring scale of force constant 1500 N/m. (a) If you suddenly
put a 3.0-kg adobe brick in the basket, find the maximum distance that the spring will stretch. (b) If, instead, you
release the brick from 1.0 m above the basket, by how much will the spring stretch at its maximum elongation?

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