Essential University Physics (3rd Edition)
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Author: Richard Wolfson
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Chapter 4, Problem 12FTD
If you cut a spring in half, is the spring constant of each new spring less than, equal to, or greater than the spring constant of the original spring? (See Problem 50 for a quantitative look at this question.)
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