College Physics: A Strategic Approach (4th Edition)
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Chapter 8, Problem 60GP
A 25 kg child bounces on a pogo stick. The pogo stick has a spring with spring constant 2.0 × 104 N/m. When the child makes a nice big bounce, she finds that at the bottom of the bounce she is accelerating upward at 9.8 m/s2. How much is the spring compressed?
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