A mass of moving with a speed of on a smooth horizontal surface collides with a…

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Problem

A mass of

0.5\ \text{kg}

moving with a speed of

1.5\ \text{m/s}

on a smooth horizontal surface collides with a nearly weightless spring of force constant

k=50\ \text{N/m}

. The maximum compression of the spring is (1)

0.15\ \text{m}

(2)

0.12\ \text{m}

(3)

0.5\ \text{m}

(4)

0.25\ \text{m}