🎢 A block slides down a frictionless track into a spring — energy just changes costume
Release the block from a height. Gravity turns height-energy into motion, the spring stores it, and it all returns — the total E never changes.
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Step 1 — the block waits at the top of the ramp.
Mass m
2.0
kg
Release height h
4.0
m
Spring k
800
N/m
K =
0
J · U =
0
J
E = K+U =
0
J · v =
0
m/s
frictionless → E stays flat
height ↔ motion ↔ spring
Animation speed
1.0×
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