Assignment:
Show your work and the equations that you used.
A block of mass m1 =2.0 Kg slides along a frictionless table with a speed of 10 m/s. Directly in front of it, and moving in the same direction, is a block of mass m2 = 5.0 Kg moving at 3.0m/s. A massless spring with spring constant k=1120 N/m is attached to the near side of m2 (the side facing m1). When the blocks collide, what is the maximum compression of the spring? (Hint: At the moment of maximum compression of the spring, the two blocks move as one. Find the velocity by noting that the collision is completely inelastic at this point.)