A 2·g spider is dangling at the end of a silk thread. You can make the...

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A 2·g spider is dangling at the end of a silk thread. You canmake the spider bounce up and down on the thread by tapping lightlyon its feet with a pencil. You discover that you can give thespider the largest amplitude on the thread by tapping exactly onceevery second. (a) What is the spring constant of the silk thread?N/m (b) After further experimentation, you discover that if you tapat a rate of three times every two seconds, the amplitude is 20% ofits maximum value. What is the damping constant for the thread?kg/s

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