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OpenStudy (anonymous):

1. A body of mass 2 kg is suspended from a spring of negligible mass, and is found to stretch the spring 20 centimeter. What is the spring constant?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

what's the equation again?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

f = -kx

OpenStudy (anonymous):

2kg * 9.8m/s^2 = f

OpenStudy (anonymous):

2cm = 0.02m <<< x, then solve for k

OpenStudy (anonymous):

19.6 = -k20

OpenStudy (anonymous):

you have to convert 20cm into m because acceleration due to gravity is in meters

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Ohhh thanks thanks so 980=-k?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i guess yeah

OpenStudy (anonymous):

-980 can be a spring constant?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i think that's how it's usually expressed, i can't remember though. ask the physics study group roflmao

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