Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Foundations and Connections
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Author: Katz, Debora M.
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Chapter 5, Problem 44PQ
A student working on a school project modeled a trampoline as a spring obeying Hooke’s law and measured the spring constant of a certain trampoline as 4617 N/m. If a child of mass 27.0 kg compresses the trampoline vertically by a maximum of 0.25 m, while bouncing up and down, what is the child’s acceleration at the moment of maximum compression?
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