I really appreciate your help but I'm really dense. Please let me see if my interpretation of the question is correct. So a block moving to the right is first retarded by friction. It then strikes a spring, thereby compressing this spring a given distance. From there the spring releases and...
Homework Statement
A spring has its right end fixed and is installed on a horizontal table so that the free end, in equilibrium, is at x = 3.00 m. A 1.65 kg block coming from the left slides along the table. When it passes the origin, it is moving at 5.58 m/s. It strikes the spring...