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I recently did a conservation of energy lab with my high school gifted andtalented physics students. The lab involved a mass oscillating on a spring,
midpoint of the oscillation and find the difference between this value and
Part of the analysis was to compute the potential energies for the
and momentum, related to the lab. I get 2.6 m/s. In your (plural) opinion,
Along the same line, I wrote the following question for a test on energy
mass is hung from a spring which is then observed to stretch 5 cm. The mass
Thanks as always for your (plural) input.
Test question:
"This question is related to the conservation of energy lab: a 1.0 kg
a) find the spring constant of the springsystem after it is stretched down. (Define the origin to be the bottom of
b) find the total potential energy (spring and gravitational) of the
c) Use conservation of energy to find the speed of the mass as itpasses through the midpoint (i.e. 12.5 cm from the origin)"