Question

Hooke's Law. I have a spring, whose constant k I determined to be 500 from the 10N it takes to hold it 0.02m from rest (0.3m). Now, stretching it out to 0.4, I integrated 500x dx from 0 to 0.1and got 5/2 joules of work. Of course, that doesn't make sense, because I'm stretching it further. What am I missing?

Answer 1

Agh. figured it out that fast. I swear, sometimes I just have to ask. :)