5. A force of 8N stretches a spring of natural length of 4m to an additional 50cm. Find the work done in stretching the spring from its natural length to 5m.

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Force F=kx where x is the stretch distance and k is a constant associated with the spring.

8=0.5k, so k=16N/m. Therefore when x=1, F=16N.
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