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Nataly
3 months ago
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A simple watermelon launcher is designed as a spring with a light platform for the watermelon. When an 8.00 kg watermelon is put

on the launcher, the launcher spring compresses by 10.0 cm. The watermelon is then pushed down by an additional 30.0 cm and it’s ready to go. Just before the launch, how much energy is stored in the spring?
Physics
1 answer:
Yuliya22 [3.3K]3 months ago
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To tackle this problem, it's essential to employ concepts associated with force as per Hooke's law, alongside the forces described by Newton's second law and the concept of potential elastic energy. Since the forces are in equilibrium, the spring force matches the gravitational force. To find the spring constant k, we recognize the compression is 40cm at launch, hence applying the potential elastic energy formula results in determining the energy stored in the spring as 63.72 Joules.
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