Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 6, Problem 9E
A leaf spring in an off-road truck with a spring constant k of 87.6 kN/m (87,600 N/m) is compressed a distance of 6.2 cm (0.062 m) from its original unstretched position. What is the increase in potential energy of the spring (in kJ)?
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