Homework Help: Physics

Posted by JoseCuervo on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 5:13pm.

A small fly of mass 0.26 is caught in a spider's web. The web vibrates predominately with a frequency of 4.6 .
a)What is the value of the effective spring stiffness constant for the web?
b.)At what frequency would you expect the web to vibrate if an insect of mass 0.52 were trapped?

Physics - bobpursley, Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 5:14pm
2PI f= sqrt (k/m)

solve for k.

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