In Haiti, public transportation is often by taptaps, small pickuptrucks with seats along the sides of the pickup bed and railings towhich passengers can hang on. Typically they carry two dozen ormore passengers plus an assortment of chickens, goats, luggage,etc. Putting this much into the back of a pickup truck puts quite alarge load on the truck springs.
A truck has springs for each wheel, but for simplicity assume thatthe individual springs can be treated as one spring with a springconstant that includes the effect of all the springs. Also forsimplicity, assume that all four springs compress equally whenweight is added to the truck and that the equilibrium length of thesprings is the length they have when they support the load of anempty truck.
a. A 60 kg- driver gets into an empty taptap to start the day'swork. The springs compress 0.02 m . What is the effective springconstant of the spring system in the taptap?
Enter the spring constant numerically in newtons per meter. Expressyour answer using two significant figures.
In Haiti, public transportation is often by taptaps, small pickuptrucks with seats along the sides of the pickup bed and railings towhich passengers can hang on. Typically they carry two dozen ormore passengers plus an assortment of chickens, goats, luggage,etc. Putting this much into the back of a pickup truck puts quite alarge load on the truck springs.
A truck has springs for each wheel, but for simplicity assume thatthe individual springs can be treated as one spring with a springconstant that includes the effect of all the springs. Also forsimplicity, assume that all four springs compress equally whenweight is added to the truck and that the equilibrium length of thesprings is the length they have when they support the load of anempty truck.
a. A 60 kg- driver gets into an empty taptap to start the day'swork. The springs compress 0.02 m . What is the effective springconstant of the spring system in the taptap?
Enter the spring constant numerically in newtons per meter. Expressyour answer using two significant figures.
