A moving cart hits a spring, traveling at 5.0 m/s at the time of contact. at this instant the cart is motionless by how much is the spring compressed

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Karlee Duran

5 July, 11:33

A moving cart hits a spring, traveling at 5.0 m/s at the time of contact. at this instant the cart is motionless by how much is the spring compressed

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Rachael Singleton · Answer 1

This state of motionlessness occurs because all of the kinetic energy in the car is absorbed by the spring in the form of elastic potential energy. The mathematical representation is:

1/2 mv² = 1/2 kx²

25m = kx², where m is the mass of the cart, k is the spring constant and x is the spring's extension.