A 2000 kg car moving at 18 m/s hits an initially uncompressed spring with a spring constant of 8 x 106 N/m. The max compression of the spring in meters is?

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A 2000 kg car moving at 18 m/s hits an initially uncompressed spring with a spring constant of 8 x 106 N/m. The max compression of the spring in meters is? 

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We are given mass of car. We are given velocity of car. We are given spring constant of the spring. The initial kinetic energy of car is converted to spring potential energy. We hence find the compression of spring.

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