A recently patented pile driver pounds piles into the ground by launching 15 kg bowling balls from a spring loaded gun, up around a frictionless loop-de-loop of radius r= 8 m, and down onto the pile. When the spring is compressed by As = 2 m, the bowling balls have a speed of 20 m/s at the top of the loop, as shown. (You may assume g = 10 m/s².) v= 20 m/s T=8 m k=? As 2 m Find the spring constant of the gun. pile A) Zero B) 100 N/m C) 2700 N/m D) 150 N/m E) 1300 N/m O A O E

A recently patented pile driver pounds piles into the ground by launching 15 kg bowling balls from a spring loaded gun, up around a frictionless loop-de-loop of radius r= 8 m, and down onto the pile. When the spring is compressed by As = 2 m, the bowling balls have a speed of 20 m/s at the top of the loop, as shown. (You may assume g = 10 m/s².) v= 20 m/s T=8 m k=? As 2 m Find the spring constant of the gun. pile A) Zero B) 100 N/m C) 2700 N/m D) 150 N/m E) 1300 N/m O A O E

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