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A very short 100 kg acrobat steps off a 10 m high platform and starts falling. The acrobat falls 9 m, then encounters a 1 m long spring connected at one end to the ground below. (a) What’s the spring constant so the acrobat just touches the ground (that is, so the spring contracts 1 meter)? The spring-with-acrobat system rebounds and launches the acrobat back into the air. (b) How high off the ground does the acrobat go above the ground before falling back? I got 1.765 x 10^4 N/m for the spring constant, but I'm not sure how to do the second part.

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