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Re: test problem

In a message dated 12/4/2001 11:17:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, inet@INTELLISYS.NET writes:


No, the questions are unreasonable. If the extra downward displacement is
greater than the equilibrium displacement, then the possibility of coil
binding is not excluded on the upward rebound.
   For this same reason, the spring constant is not determined by only the
force required for a specified displacement.
To summarize: a) and b) are indeterminate, and c) is incorrectly modeled.


Does my specification of an origin (and by implication a reference for zero gravitational potential energy) remove the indeterminacy of b)?

Justin