Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-308-2

Chapter 29 - Relativity - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 1043: 57

Answer

$4.9\times 10^{-16}Kg$

Work Step by Step

We can find the increase in the spring's mass as $W=\frac{1}{2}Kx^2=\Delta mc^2$ This can be rearranged as: $\Delta m=\frac{Kx^2}{2c^2}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $\Delta m=\frac{(584)(0.39)^2}{2(3.00\times 10^8)^2}=4.9\times 10^{-16}Kg$
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