A 5 kg sphere is dropped from a height y = 2 m to test newly designed

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A 5 kg sphere is dropped from a height y = 2 m to test newly designed spring floors used in gymnastics. The mass of the floor section is 10 kg, and the effective stiffness of the floor is k = 120kN/m. Knowing that the coefficient of restitution between the ball and the platform is 0.6,

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Determine
(a) The height h reached by the sphere after rebound,
(b) The maximum force in the springs.

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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073398242

11th edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston Jr., David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell, Brian Self

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