A mass of 4.5 kg, resting on a horizontal frictionless surface, is attached on the right to a horizontal spring with spring constant 29 N/m and on the left to a horizontal spring with spring constant 60 N/m. If this system is moved from equilibrium, what is the effective spring constant?

a. –31 N/m
b. 31 N/m
c. 89 N/m
d. –89 N/m
e. 16 N/m


c

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D. 37.4 N
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A spaceship moving past the Earth with a speed of 0.800 c signals to the Earth with pulsed laser photons emitted at 10.0-second intervals according to the spaceship's clock. According to observers on Earth who see the flashes, the time interval they measure is

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