Please help with this exercise and Thanks IP A 4.1 kg block is attached to a spr

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Please help with this exercise and Thanks

IP A 4.1 kg block is attached to a spring with a force constant of 600N/m , as shown in the figure(Figure 1). Find the work done by the spring on the block as the block moves from A to B along paths 1 and 2 Enter your answers numerically separated by commas. Express your answers using two significant figures. How do your results depend on the mass of the block? Specifically, if you increase the mass, does the work done by the spring increase, decrease, or stay the same? (Assume the system is frictionless.) increases decreases stays the same

Explanation / Answer

spring force is conservative in nature meaning work done by spring depends only on intial and final postion not on the path

we can see the spring stretches by 2 cm in both cases finally

work done = - 0.12 J   work done is negative

it is independent of the mass , since work done by spring is integral of kx dx which is independent of mass

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