Bc7p26 During spring semester at MIT residents of the

Last updated: 4/25/2023

Bc7p26 During spring semester at MIT residents of the parallel buildings of the East Campus dorms battle one another with large catapults that are made with surgical hose mounte on a window frame A balloon filled with dyed water is placed in a pouch attached to the hose which is then stretched through the width of the room Assume that the stretching of th nose obeys Hooke s law and has a spring constant of 102 N m If the hose is stretched by 4 7 m and then released how much work does the force from the hose do on the balloon in pouch by the time the hose reaches its relaxed length