Captain Science, unmasker of fuzzy thinkers and proponent of cosmic truth, drops a 35 kg bowling...

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Captain Science, unmasker of fuzzy thinkers andproponent of cosmic truth, drops a 35 kg bowling ball on a stiffspring from a height of 1.0 m and finds that the spring compresses2 cm.  If he drops the bowling ball from a height of 4.0 m,how much will the spring compress?

8 cm


1 cm


16 cm


2 cm


4 cm


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SOLUTIONFrom Law of conservation of energy the initialgravitational potential energy of the ball is    See Answer
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