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In a preliminary design for a mail-sorting machine, parcels moving at 2 ft/s slide down a...

In a preliminary design for a mail-sorting machine, parcels moving at 2 ft/s slide down a smooth ramp and are brought to rest by a linear spring. What should the spring constant be if you don’t want a 10-lb parcel to be subjected to a maximum deceleration greater than 10 g’s?

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