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    Calculating Spring Compression from Toy Car Collision

    Homework Statement A toy car with a mass of m=.079 kg crashes into a spring with constant k=69 N/m. If the car was going v=1.10 m/s, then how far will the spring compress? Homework Equations I think you could use the equation for Elastic Potential Energy but I'm not sure what to do with...