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The world's least exciting carnival ride consists of a cloth sling (of negligible mass) hanging by a spring of force constant k = 225 N/m. Children sit in the sling and bob up and down slowly. How exciting ... Little Sally tries the ride. She gets into the sling, and, after Cletus the Carny...

An elevator of mass M = 300 kg hangs at the end of a long, thin steel cable: it has length L = 96 m and diameter d = 3 mm. A minor earthquake shakes the entire building. After the quake passes, the elevator continues to bob up and down for a long time. What is the period of oscillation? i used...