🎉 Announcing Numerade's $26M Series A, led by IDG Capital!Read how Numerade will revolutionize STEM Learning Numerade Educator ### Problem 20 Easy Difficulty # Block A in Fig. 8.35 has mass 1.00$\mathrm{kg}$, and block$B$has mass 3.00 kg. The blocks are forced together, compressing a spring$S$between them; then the system is released from rest on a level, frictionless surface. The spring, which has negligible mass, is not fastened to either block and drops to the surface after it has expanded. Block$B$acquires a speed of 1.20$\mathrm{m} / \mathrm{s}$, (a) What is the final speed of block$A ?$How much potential energy was stored in the compressed spring? ### Answer ## (a)$\overrightarrow{\mathrm{v}}_{A 2}=3.6 \mathrm{m} / \mathrm{s}$to the left.(b)$U_{e l, 1}=8.64 \mathrm{J}\$

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