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Homework Statement 3. A 0.5 kg mass is connected to the lower end of an ideal vertical coil spring suspended from a retort stand. The mass is held at rest with the spring completed unstretched and then allowed to fall. If the spring constant is 20 N/m, determine the maximum distance the...

Nevermind, I figured it out. It makes more sense for the gravitational energy h2 to be down upwards to the ball. The first statement I made was false.

Homework Statement A 3 kg ball is dropped from a height of 0.8 m above the top of the spring onto a vertical coiled spring sitting on the floor. The spring constant of the spring is 1200 N/m. Determine the maximum compression of the spring as the ball comes momentarily to rest before rising...