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    Quick question about spring compression and work

    This makes a ton of sense, and explains a lot... It helps a lot to think of the work done on a system by a force as a conversion of energy from one form to another. Right; if we take the block to be fixed, then the wall is what's doing the work on the spring instead of the block. The...
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    Quick question about spring compression and work

    This is my first time posting, but I've done quite a bit of reading around on here, and I admire your guys' intuition/skills for this stuff. Most of you appear to have a real knack for conceptualizing these problems, and I'm jealous ;). Homework Statement Two identical blocks, A and B, on...
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