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ISBN: 9780134159386

Author: Dale Ewen, Neill Schurter, Erik Gundersen

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 12, Problem 5AC

Every morning Shakira weighs herself on a bathroom spring scale. Today, the scale reads 134 lb. (a) If the spring in the bathroom scale compresses 0.752 in., find its spring constant. (b) If her husband steps on the scale and the spring compresses 1.13 in., how much does he weigh? (c) Why is there a limit to how much weight a spring scale can measure?

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