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Mechanical Energy of a Mass-Spring System

Goals


  • Understand elastic potential energy and Hooke's Law
  • Observe how energy can be transferred from one form to another within a system
  • Observe dissipation of energy when non-conservative forces (e.g. friction) do work

Lab Materials


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