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Posted by storm on Monday, September 13, 2010 at 3:53pm.

A child's toy consists of a piece of plastic attached to a spring, as shown below. The spring is compressed against the floor a distance 1.8 cm and released. If the spring constant is 107 N/m, what is the magnitude of the spring force acting on the toy at the moment it is released?
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physics - Anonymous, Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 11:50am
200 n
physics - Anonymous, Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 8:55pm
(85N/m)(0.02m)=1.7N
physics - Ariel, Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 8:57pm
(0.018m)(107N/m)=1.926N

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