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Vanessa Avila
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Homework Statement
Inside a NASA test vehicle, a 3.50-kg ball is pulled along by a horizontal ideal spring fixed to a friction-free table. The force constant of the spring is 226 N/m . The vehicle has a steady acceleration of 5.00 m/s2, and the ball is not oscillating. Suddenly, when the vehicle's speed has reached 45.0 m/s, its engines turn off, thus eliminating its acceleration but not its velocity.
What will be the ball's maximum speed relative to the vehicle?
Homework Equations
v = ±ω√(A2 - x2)
ω = √(k/m)
The Attempt at a Solution
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I solved for ω and got 8.0356 rad/s
I tried to use the v equation above and set x = 0 and got 0.598m/s, the site told me my answer was not quite right possibly due to a round-off error.