Submitted by Peter Michaux (not verified) on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 07:33.
That is a really neat way of looking at it. So how does F=-kx work into this? What happens beyond the elastic limit or when the spring cannot compress any further?
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That is a really neat way of looking at it. So how does F=-kx work into this? What happens beyond the elastic limit or when the spring cannot compress any further?