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Re: Engineering Challenge- Spring Loaded Kicker Edition

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Originally Posted by JackG View Post
Clarification: when you say spring rate, you're referring to the spring constant, right? In other words, bigger spring rate means bigger value of k? In that case. . .


Right?
Yes (to the first part), Spring Rate is referring to K or Spring constant (force/unit distance... N/m or lbs/in or stones/cubit...).

As far as the silver text goes... your may be thinking in the right direction, but some more math would help.