A) Coil springs are widely used in industry. Those used in scientific instruments must be manufactured to exhibit consistent performance. One important property of a spring is its force constant. As the quality control manager of a coil spring manufacturer, you are examining a coil spring made by your company that compresses 0.0710 m when a mass of 175 kg is placed on it. Calculate the force constant k.
B)Your customer specifies that the springs used for its mass scales must fit within 5% of k = 25120 N/m. Shipping products that have been known to fail specification requirements can open your company to civil or criminal charges, or both. Knowing this, would you accept or reject this spring?