Elastic Energy

[gwiyomi17]

 

A spring is hanging from a ceiling, and you attached a mass to it.

 

First scenario: You support the mass by your hand from the spring's uncompressed position and slowly released it at it goes to stop.

 

Second scenario: From the uncompressed position of the spring, you let the mass dropped quickly.

 

Question: Is the maximum (extension) stretch of the spring when mass is dropped quickly, equal to the stretch of the string when the mass is released slowly?

 

[swansont]

What are your thoughts on the answer?

[studiot]

This is an easy experiment to try for yourself.

 

Don't be a Greek and guess.

 

See if you can then explain the results.

[J.C.MacSwell]

This is an easy experiment to try for yourself.

 

Don't be a Greek and guess.

 

See if you can then explain the results.

Surely they've shaken that stereotype by now...

[studiot]

 

Surely they've shaken that stereotype by now...

 

 

I don't think Aristotle will ever live that horse down.

[J.C.MacSwell]

 

I don't think Aristotle will ever live that horse down.

Yeah, I guess that Greek urned it...

[studiot]

 

Yeah, I guess that Greek urned it...

 

 

Ha Ha, but

 

There was a serious message in my comment. Are you familiar with the story of the famous Ancient Greek Philosophers and the Horse's teeth?

[J.C.MacSwell]

 

Ha Ha, but

 

There was a serious message in my comment. Are you familiar with the story of the famous Ancient Greek Philosophers and the Horse's teeth?

Just a joke, but didn't know there was anything behind it. More massive things fall faster etc. Intuitive but untested in Aristotelian Physics etc.