One model of tennis ball launcher has advertised that it is capable of imparting 15,000 J of kinetic energy to a 0.5 kg ball initially at rest. A student carefully measures the compression of the spring to
be 0.10 m. What is the elastic energy stored in the spring?

Consider a small frictionless puck perched at the top of a fixed sphere of radius r. if the puck is given a tiny nudge so that it begins to slide down, through what vertical height will it descend before it leaves the surface of the sphere? [hint: use conservation of energy to find the puck's speed as a func e conservation of energy to find the puck's speed as a function of its height at what value of this normal force does the puck leave the sphere? ] here on the puck.