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    Calculating Time for a Mass Hitting a Spring

    Thank you! This is what I was looking for, and yes my rust is showing as it is of course a sine function not a quadratic/exponential as I erroneously stated earlier. Sincerely eggman1965
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    Calculating Time for a Mass Hitting a Spring

    This does not give the force vs time relation which is NOT linear. The F vs t graph is either quadratic or exponential and the standard kinematics equations only apply when acceleration is constant (which it is NOT in this case) The S.H.O. is my current focus but I'm still trying to figure out a...
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    Calculating Time for a Mass Hitting a Spring

    I posed a question to my gr12 physics class today along these lines: suppose a mass (m) traveling on a frictionless surface at a speed (v) runs into a spring (constant K). How long (time t) will it take to come to a stop (vf = 0) I'm quite rusty I suppose since I cannot seem to come up...
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    Calculating radio station frequency given distances

    This is a classic two source interference problem: The 450m is the 'delta X' distance between minima, the 25km is the 'L' distance from the source, the 175m is 'd' the slit separation for double slit intereference (think Young's exp). Use the relation: 'lambda' over 'd' = 'delta X' over...
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