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Test 3
Fall 2015
Questions
/15
Problem 1
/15
Problem 2
/15
Problem 3
/15
Total
/60
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Problem 1 (15 points): A 600 g block is placed at the top of a frictionless ramp 25 cm high and
released. It travels over a flat, frictionless track, 80 cm long, then hits a spring with a constant of
100 N/m.
Please answer each of the following questions.
a) What is the velocity of the block when it passes point A, in the middle of the track?
b) How far will the spring be compressed before the block comes to a momentary stop?
Problem 2 (15 points): A nonlinear spring model could include a cubic term. That is, the force
is approximated by F(x) = kx + kx3.
Please answer each of the folowing questions.
a) If all quantities are in our usual (SI) units, what are the units of k and k?
b) For a particular spring, the constants are k = 300 and k = 5x104. How much does the potential
energy in the spring change when it is stretched from x = 0.02 m to 0.05 m?