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Without using Maths, how would you know the Potential Energy for a given displacement?ZapperZ said:The mathematics does NOT tell you this.
That is entirely up to the choice of the experimenter and has nothing do do with the Physics of the system. And I think this is the nub of our disagreement. If one was interested in the Physics of the setup, one would very soon come to the conclusion (experimentally) that there is no 'Maximum' except either when the experimenter chickens out or the spring departs from the simple law and would you seriously call that a maximum? (Apart from it being the biggest number used).ZapperZ said:picking up the location of maximum force.
I totally agree and have made this same point several times higher up. And slope of PE against distance, as we all agree, tells you the Force. (Ye Gods - that's more than thirty posts.ZapperZ said:To me, this thread has been sufficiently answered PRIOR to Post #14.