A box sliding on a frictionless flat surface runs into a fixed spring, which compresses a distance x to stop the box. If the initial speed of the box were doubled, how much would the spring compress in this case?

a) half as much
b) the same amount
c) ? 2 times as much
d) twice as much
e) four times as much


Ans: d) twice as much

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