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Gary Gladding
published by the University of llinois Physics Education Research Group
This interactive homework problem for introductory physics presents a block attached to a spring on a frictionless incline plane. Values are given for the spring constant, mass of the block, and spring length. If a support rod is removed, the block will slide down the incline. The learner's task is to determine how much the spring will stretch. This problem is part of a much larger collection of interactive examples by the same author.
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![]() <a href="https://www.compadre.org/precollege/items/detail.cfm?ID=13401">Gladding, Gary. Illinois PER Interactive Examples: Block on Spring. Urbana: University of llinois Physics Education Research Group, August 31, 2014.</a>
![]() G. Gladding, (University of llinois Physics Education Research Group, Urbana, 2010), WWW Document, (https://ie.per.physics.illinois.edu/per/ie/ie.pl?phys111/ie/04/ie_static_incline_spring).
![]() G. Gladding, Illinois PER Interactive Examples: Block on Spring (University of llinois Physics Education Research Group, Urbana, 2010), <https://ie.per.physics.illinois.edu/per/ie/ie.pl?phys111/ie/04/ie_static_incline_spring>.
![]() Gladding, G. (2014, August 31). Illinois PER Interactive Examples: Block on Spring. Retrieved March 27, 2025, from University of llinois Physics Education Research Group: https://ie.per.physics.illinois.edu/per/ie/ie.pl?phys111/ie/04/ie_static_incline_spring
![]() Gladding, Gary. Illinois PER Interactive Examples: Block on Spring. Urbana: University of llinois Physics Education Research Group, August 31, 2014. https://ie.per.physics.illinois.edu/per/ie/ie.pl?phys111/ie/04/ie_static_incline_spring (accessed 27 March 2025).
![]() Gladding, Gary. Illinois PER Interactive Examples: Block on Spring. Urbana: University of llinois Physics Education Research Group, 2010. 31 Aug. 2014. 27 Mar. 2025 <https://ie.per.physics.illinois.edu/per/ie/ie.pl?phys111/ie/04/ie_static_incline_spring>.
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Author = "Gary Gladding",
Title = {Illinois PER Interactive Examples: Block on Spring},
Publisher = {University of llinois Physics Education Research Group},
Volume = {2025},
Number = {27 March 2025},
Month = {August 31, 2014},
Year = {2010}
}
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