Answered: Consider a frictionless track as shown…

College Physics

11th Edition

ISBN:9781305952300

Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Publisher:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

Section: Chapter Questions

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Consider a frictionless track as shown in the figure below. A block of mass

m₁ = 2.00 kg

is released from point from a height of

h = 1.15 m

. It makes a perfectly inelastic collision at point with a block of mass

m₂ = 2.00 kg

that is initially at rest. After the collision, the block of mass

m₂

moves to the right and collides with a spring at point . The spring is attached to a wall and has a spring constant of 8.59 kN/m.

(a) Calculate the energy loss during the collision. Enter the magnitude.

(b) Calculate the maximum compression of the spring.

(c) Instead of an inelastic collision, consider a head-on elastic collision at point . During this specific elastic collision when the masses are equal, m₁ transfers its kinetic energy to m₂ and as a result, m₁ comes to rest. Calculate the maximum compression of the spring.