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Transcribed Image Text:A mass-spring system oscillates on a frictionless horizontal surface in simple
harmonic motion with an amplitude A = 0.2 m. At what position (x = ?) would the
kinetic energy of the system be equal to three times its elastic potential energy
(K = 3U)?
At x = +0.05 m
ALX= +0 1 m
O Atx= +0.08 m
At x = +0.04 m
At x = +0.025 m
O O O O
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