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A horizontal spring is bolted to a wall on one end and is attached to a box on the other end (Figure 1). At rest, the distance between the wall and the box is 0.5 meters. The box itself has a mass of 1.0 kg, and the spring constant is 5.0 N/m.




Several different weights, of mass m, were added to the box to change its overall mass. For each trial, the box was moved 0.75 meters away from the wall, the spring's full extension. All motion is frictionless.

MCAT Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems 1
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1. The kinetic energy of the box is increasing. Therefore, the box must be
2. As more mass, m, is added to the box, how does the potential energy of the box at the end of the extended spring change?
3. The number of oscillation cycles that the spring completes in a given time frame is called the
4. For the spring system described in Figure 1, what is the potential energy when the spring is fully extended and no mass m is added?