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determine the potential energy stored in a spring if a force of 28 holds the spring and it has a spring constant of 97 N/m compressed.
please answer in joules and explain how you solved It. (like dumb it down) so that I could learn. thank you!
The force on a spring is given by
And the potential energy stored in the spring is
Where k is spring constant (here k = 97 N/m), and x is expansion/compression in spring.
Given that a 28 N force is holding the spring. So we can write
or,
Therefore, the potential energy stored in the spring is