When you stretch a spring 20 cm past its natural length, it exerts a force of 8 N. What is the spring constant of this spring?
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In this case, we know that when the spring is stretched 20 cm past its natural length, it exerts a force of 8 N. So we can plug in these values and solve for k: Show more…
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