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What type of energy is associated with spring constants?A.GPE onlyB.KE onlyC.EPE onlyD.KE and EPE

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Spring constant has unit N/m, or force per length.

The spring constant gives information about how much energy a spring can store when stretched or compressed per stretch length.

This means that the spring constant has information about both EPE and KE.

Since energy is conserved, EPE when spring is stretched = KE when spring is released.

Answer D is correct.

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