10. Conservation of Energy
Springs & Elastic Potential Energy
Problem 8.85a
Textbook Question
Textbook QuestionIf you stand on a bathroom scale, the spring inside the scale compresses 0.60 mm, and it tells you your weight is 760 N. Now if you jump on the scale from a height of 1.0 m, what does the scale read at its peak? Assume Hooke’s law holds.
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