The spring constant of an automotive suspensionspring increases with increasing load due
Chapter 7, Problem 62(choose chapter or problem)
The spring constant of an automotive suspensionspring increases with increasing load due to a springcoil that is widest at the bottom, smoothly tapering to asmaller diameter near the top. The result is a softerride on normal road surfaces from the wider coils, butthe car does not bottom out on bumps because whenthe lower coils collapse, the stiffer coils near the topabsorb the load. For such springs, the force exerted bythe spring can be empirically found to be given byF 5 axb. For a tapered spiral spring that compresses12.9 cm with a 1 000-N load and 31.5 cm with a 5 000-Nload, (a) evaluate the constants a and b in the empiricalequation for F and (b) find the work needed tocompress the spring 25.0 cm.
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