An engine is attached to a wagon through a shock absorber of length 1.5m. The system with a total mass of 40,000kg is moving with a speed of 75 kmh-1 when the brakes are applied to bring it to rest. In the process of the system being brought to rest, the spring of the shock absorber gets compressed by 1.0m. If 90% of energy of the wagon is lost due to friction, the spring constant is________* 105 N/m.
An engine is attached to a wagon through a shock absorber of length 1.5m. The system with a total mass of 40,000kg is moving with a speed of 75 kmh-1 when the brakes are applied to bring it to rest. In the process of the system being brought to rest, the spring of the shock absorber gets compressed by 1.0m. If 90% of energy of the wagon is lost due to friction, the spring constant is________* 105 N/m.
By work energy theorem
Work done = change in K.E.
Work done by friction work done by spring
As 90% of K.E. is losed by friction so that
-K -> -16 * 105
K = 16 * 105
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