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Understanding the Bungee Jumper Problem: Energy Transformation and Calculations
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[QUOTE="erobz, post: 6832803, member: 700856"] The interpretation that "makes sense" the bungee has no free length so that it starts applying the force immediately after the jump...unlike an actual bungee that would allow for some amount of free fall. The other issue is that the bungee has somehow stopped the jumper while applying much less force the jumper's weight. If you just hung the man (without them jumping off the bridge and gaining kinetic energy) the stretch of the spring would be larger than the quoted 15 m. Others are talking of work not being conserved to make sense of it... I think the question is just a blunder. [/QUOTE]
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