A student places her 500 g physics book on a frictionless

Chapter 10, Problem 20E

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Problem 20E

A student places her 500 g physics book on a frictionless table. She pushes the book against a spring, compressing the spring by 4.0 cm, then releases the book. What is the book’s speed as it slides away? The spring constant is 1250 N/m.

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QUESTION:

Problem 20E

A student places her 500 g physics book on a frictionless table. She pushes the book against a spring, compressing the spring by 4.0 cm, then releases the book. What is the book’s speed as it slides away? The spring constant is 1250 N/m.

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Here we have to find the book's velocity as it slides.

The mass of the physics book is,

                                             \(m=500 \mathrm{~g}=0.5 \mathrm{~kg} .\)

 

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