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Author: William Moebs, Samuel J. Ling, Jeff Sanny

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The massless spring of a spring gun has a force constant k = 12 N / cm . When the gun is aimed vertically, a 15-g projectile is shot to a height of 5.0 m above the end of the expanded spring. (See below.) How much was the spring compressed initially? Chapter 8, Problem 43P, The massless spring of a spring gun has a force constant k=12N/cm . When the gun is aimed

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