An engineer is designing a spring to be placed at the bottom of an elevator shaft. If the elevator cable should break when the elevator is at a height of 50m above the top of the spring , calculate the value that the spring stiffness constant should have so that passengers undergo an acceleration of no more than 5.5g when brought to rest. Let 1053kg be the total mass of the elevator and passengers.

An engineer is designing a spring to be placed at the bottom of an elevator shaft. If the elevator cable should break when the elevator is at a height of 50m above the top of the spring , calculate the value that the spring stiffness constant should have so that passengers undergo an acceleration of no more than 5.5g when brought to rest. Let 1053kg be the total mass of the elevator and passengers.

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