Homework Help: Physics

Posted by Guy on Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 3:06pm.

A 63 kg student is standing atop a spring in an elevator that is accelerating upward at 2.5 m/s^2 . The spring constant is 2700 N/m.

By how much is the spring compressed?

Physics - Elena, Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 6:28pm
m(g+a)=kx
x=m(g+a)/k
Physics - Chenrui, Monday, October 15, 2012 at 8:06pm
-0.287m
Physics - Tyler, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 12:59am
Its postive you dummy

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