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    Conservation of Energy with Spring Mass System on Inclined Plane

    Okay, I'll recheck some things.
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    Conservation of Energy with Spring Mass System on Inclined Plane

    Homework Statement (Figure attached to post) A box of mass m is pressed against (but is not attached to) an ideal spring of force constant k, compressing the spring a distance x. After it is released, the box slides up a frictionless incline as shown in Fig. 7.5 and eventually stops. If we...
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    Is engineering really for people that hate math?

    I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Computer Engineering or Computer Science... At my university both disciplines are required to take a Discrete Mathematics course which is about as close to modern/pure mathematics you can get. That class was about 95% mathematical proofs such as logic proofs...