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If a ball is thrown against a horizontal spring, the spring compresses and
then extends. The ball is then sent back in the other direction. As the
spring constant k goes to infinity, the spring appears to act like a wall.
Does it? Does the physics change? Is energy stored in the k=infty spring
when it is compressed, even though the amount of compression is
infinitesimal?