At an outdoor market, a bunch of bananas attached to the bottom of a vertical spring of force constant 16.0N/m is set into oscillatory motion with amplitude of 20.0cm. It is observed that the maximum speed of the bunch of bananas is 40.0cm/s. What is the weight of the bananas?
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Expert's answer
2021-02-10T10:11:27-0500
The maximum speed of the bunch of bananas undergoing simple harmonic motion can be found as follows:
vmax=ωA=mkA.
Then, from this equation, we can find the mass of the bananas:
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