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ThereIam
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An 85.0 kg person steps into a car of mass 2400 kg, causing it to sink 2.35 cm on its springs. If started into vertical oscillation, and assuming no damping, at what frequency will the car and passenger vibrate on these springs?
w= Sqrt (k/m), mg=kx, perhaps?
The way I treated the problem is with the assumption that the "If started into vertical oscillation" implied that the person/car began to oscillate from the new equilibrium position 2.35 cm below the old one. I then got the spring constant k by saying that 85*9.81 = k0.0235. Then I said the natural frequency of oscillation would be w= Sqrt(k/m) plugging in k = 35483 N/m and m = 2485 kg. Then answer I then got was 3.78 Hz. A problem I just did after this one suggests to me my thinking was wrong. Help please!
w= Sqrt (k/m), mg=kx, perhaps?
The way I treated the problem is with the assumption that the "If started into vertical oscillation" implied that the person/car began to oscillate from the new equilibrium position 2.35 cm below the old one. I then got the spring constant k by saying that 85*9.81 = k0.0235. Then I said the natural frequency of oscillation would be w= Sqrt(k/m) plugging in k = 35483 N/m and m = 2485 kg. Then answer I then got was 3.78 Hz. A problem I just did after this one suggests to me my thinking was wrong. Help please!