SOLUTION: Please help me solve this problem: a spring with a spring constant K = 3 newton per meter is stretched from x = 1 meter to x = 4 meters. Find the work done to the spring.

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Question 1029411: Please help me solve this problem:
a spring with a spring constant K = 3 newton per meter is stretched from x = 1 meter to x = 4 meters. Find the work done to the spring.

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!








This is work done by the spring so work done on the spring is the negative of this amount.

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