A ball with a mass of 80 g80g is projected vertically by a spring loaded contraption. The spring in the contraption has a spring constant of 16 (kg)/s^216kgs2 and was compressed by 1/5 m15m when the ball was released. How high will the ball go?
1 Answer
Jan 8, 2017
I tried this but check my maths.
Explanation:
We can consider:
So basically we can write:
We now use the kinematic relationship:
With
If we consider also the initial compression, the total vertical distance should be: