How many? part I

As i was sitting in my room thinking of PCH I realized there are a lot of monkeys in my room. This blog will be part one of a x amount of blogs series called how-many-monkeys-I-have-in-my-room blogs.

Today we will be looking at a rather curious monkey i received from family fair a couple of years ago(one of the better prizes). This particular monkey has two springs for arms and hangs on my mirror/closet door. In the first picture the monkey is in equilibrium because its weight is equal to the two componentized spring forces . When no outside forces are acting on it, the net force on the monkey is zero.



In the Next picture I pulled the monkey down away from equilibrium so that it has spring potential energy upwards. Since the monkey will travel upwards once I release it, the amount of spring force is greater than the weight.



Once the monkey reaches the top part of its amplitude, the spring potential energy maxes out but in the downward direction. Thus the net force is the weight and the spring force going in the downward direction. Here ends part I of the monkeys series.











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