00:01
Okay, we have a mass sliding down an incline.
00:03
It's going to hit a spring and compress it.
00:07
I'm going to mark point zero as the point where the block first contacts the spring.
00:13
Point one is farther down the incline that we're going to evaluate the velocity later on.
00:28
So the initial kinetic energy just as it hits the block is half mv0 squared.
00:36
And i'm going to choose the zero of gravitational potential to be zero.
00:40
0 .0 at 0.
00:47
I can choose it to be 0 wherever i want, and that's a good choice.
00:52
And in the end, the answer would be the same no matter where i choose it.
00:57
D is the distance between the two points.
01:03
Let's look at 0 .1.
01:05
The potential energy of the spring at 0 .1 is half kd squared.
01:11
The gravitational potential there is minus mgd times sine theta.
01:16
So sine theta represents the opposite side to the angle.
01:22
And so it's this d sine theta represents really the depth that is fallen between point a and point b.
01:34
The kinetic energy of point one is half mv1 squared.
01:38
In between the two points, there's work done by friction, which is mu times mgd, cost, theta...