INTERACTIVE EXAMPLE
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Box and Spring



A box of mass 8 kg slides across a frictionless surface at an initial speed 1.5 m/s into a relaxed spring of spring constant 69 N/m.

How long is the box in contact with the spring before it bounces off in the opposite direction?

tcontact = s