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Masses, Springs, and Energy Name Lab Procedure – Answer questions in red. Requires Adobe Flash to be enabled. Download and run the HTML5 “masses-and-springs_en.html”. Click “Lab” icon. It should look like the screen below. Click the “stopwatch” selection to display a stopwatch. Also select “Show Energy” of mass 3. 1. Play with this simulation for a while. Try to figure out what all the controls do. a) With the damping slider set 1/6 of the way and the spring constant set about 1/3 of the full scale, describe what happens when you hang the 100g mass onto spring 3. The spring oscillates up and down and eventually comes to a stop. Simranpreet Cheema
b) Figure out a way to determine the value of the spring constant of the spring. You will need to use the yellow ruler. Explain your reasoning. What to you calculate? First use the yellow ruler to measure the initial and final lengths of the spring. F(spring)=-k*x k=spring constant x=springs extension K=F(spring)/x K=(0.1*9.8)/0.66 K=1.48 N/m c) With the 100g mass at rest on the spring, describe the contributions to the total energy of the mass-spring combination. You can neglect “thermal energy”. The contributions to the total energy of the mass-spring combination include gravitational potential energy and elastic potential energy. d) Using your mouse, drag the mass down on the screen until the gravitational potential energy reads zero. What can you say about the vertical position of the mass when its gravitational PE is zero? The vertical position has a height of 0 when its gravitational PE is zero. Gravitational energy can’t act on the mass at this height. e) At the same point as in part (d), what has happened to the potential energy of the spring (PE elas)?
At the sane point as in part (d), the potential energy of the spring is at the its highest point and makes up all of the total energy. f) Clicking and dragging the mass, can you find a vertical position for the mass where the total energy of the mass-spring system is all gravitational potential energy? Why is there no spring potential energy at this point? The vertical position for the mass where the total energy of the mass-spring system is all gravitational potential energy is when the spring is at its natural length with no mass attached. There is no spring potential energy because there is no energy being stored. At this position, there would only be gravitational potential energy making up the total energy. g) Now drag the mass still higher on the screen than in part f. Describe the contributions to the total energy (neglect thermal energy). Explain your observations. The contributions to the total energy include both gravitational potential energy and spring potential energy. Gravitational potential energy increases because heigh tof mass increase, and spring potential energy increases because the spring is more coiled so there is more stored energy. 2. Remove the 100g mass from spring 3. Move the spring constant to just over 1/2 position on the slider (fifth mark from the left). a) Using masses again, calculate the new spring constant of the spring. Explain your method.
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