You have a two-wheel trailer that you pull behind your ATV. Two children with a combined mass of 76.2 kg hop on board for a ride through the woods and the springs (one for each wheel) each compress by 6.17 cm. When you pull the trailer over a tree root in the trail, it oscillates with a period of 1.34 s. Determine the following. (a) force constant of the springs (b) mass of the trailer

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You have a two-wheel trailer that you pull behind your ATV. Two children with a combined mass of 76.2 kg hop on board for a ride through the woods and the springs (one for each wheel) each compress by 6.17 cm. When you pull the trailer over a tree root in the trail, it oscillates with a period of 1.34 s. Determine the following.

(a) force constant of the springs
(b) mass of the trailer
(c) frequency of the oscillation
(d) time it takes for the trailer to bounce up and down 10 times
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