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Homework Statement
A 147g ball is dropped from a height of 56.5cm above a spring of neglibible mass. The ball compresses the spring to a maximum displacement of 4.45393cm. The acceleration is 9.8m/s^2. calculate the spring force constant k. Answer in units of N/m.
Homework Equations
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The Attempt at a Solution
I converted the mass from 147g to .147kg the height from 56.5cm to .565m and the displacement from 4.45393cm to .0445393m.
Now I am stuck and don't know what to do
I tried mgh=.5kx^2 but didnt work