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Homework Statement
A 2.60 g spider is dangling at the end of a silk thread. You can make the spider bounce up and down on the thread by tapping lightly on his feet with a pencil. You soon discover that you can give the spider the largest amplitude on his little bungee cord if you tap exactly once every 4.90 s seconds. What is the spring constant of the silk thread.
Homework Equations
[tex]\omega[/tex]= 2[tex]\pi[/tex]/T
[tex]\omega[/tex]= [tex]\sqrt{}k/m[/tex]
The Attempt at a Solution
so i equated the 2 equations and tried to isolate for k and this is what my equation looked like : m*(2[tex]\pi[/tex]/T)^2 = k ..i tried rearranging twice and my answer and equation are coming out the same ..pls. help