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I guess it makes it seem like I had some faulty logic going on. I knew that cx' was equal to the damping force, and that the damping force was 10N, so I just substituted 10N for cx' in that equation. But yeah, I probably should have tried deriving the equations first, instead of just blindly...

Thanks. It actually turns out that my equation was right, but I had found the wrong root using my calculator, so I was getting the wrong answer. I Feel kind of stupid =P

Homework Statement You're firing a ball of mass 10.0g out of a spring gun, and the spring is the entire length of the barrel, which is .05m long. The force constant for the spring is 500 N/m. There is a constant resisting force of 10.0N acting on the ball as it travels down the length of the...

Right, but if the total work done is -.5, wouldn't that mean that -0.5=\frac{1}{2}mv^{2}_{f} I'm not sure why you ignored the sign on the work done.

Homework Statement That's a graph of Force in Newtons (y axis) vs displacement in meters (x axis) for an object of mass 3.0kg that is moving along the x-axis and initially starts at rest. I am being asked to find the total work done on the object as it moves from x = 0 to x = 7...