College Physics (4th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0073512141
ISBN 13: 978-0-07351-214-3

Chapter 6 - Problems - Page 231: 66

Answer

The pebble flies up to a height of $12.8~meters$ above the starting point.

Work Step by Step

By conservation of energy, the gravitational potential energy at maximum height will be equal to the elastic potential energy stored in the catapult initially: $mgh = \frac{1}{2}kx^2$ $h = \frac{kx^2}{2mg}$ $h = \frac{(320~N/m)(0.20~m)^2}{(2)(0.051~kg)(9.80~m/s^2)}$ $h = 12.8~m$ The pebble flies up to a height of $12.8~meters$ above the starting point.
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