Engineering Challenge- Spring Loaded Kicker Edition

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Engineering Challenge- Spring Loaded Kicker Edition

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25-03-2010, 10:39

Ether

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Re: Engineering Challenge- Spring Loaded Kicker Edition

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Originally Posted by IKE

Ok, in case this is stumping anyone this weekend, I will put my thoughts down in White:

It's much simpler to see if you just plot a simple graph of force versus distance, and look at the area under the curve. See attached GIF file. The area under the curve is the stored energy. The area under the red curve is far larger than the area under the blue curve.

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