A 3 kg big-toy roller-coaster starts at floor level, pushed 240 mm into a compression spring whose stiffness in 1900 N/m, then released from rest
How fast is the coaster moving at the top of hill #1, 1.6 m tall hill? IGNORE FRICTION here, and other inefficiencies (such as spring's mass)
(a) determine the spring's Energy before release ]
(b) determine the coaster's gravity Energy at the hilltop ]
c) find the coaster's speed from its Kinetic Energy at the hilltop
8.54 $m/s$
22.05 $m/s$
1.60 $m/s$
2.26 $m/s$
6.45 $m/s$
8.24 $m/s$