Spring shoes. Tae-Hyuk Yoon of South Korea is the inventor of a novel method of human locomotion:
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Spring shoes. Tae-Hyuk Yoon of South Korea is the inventor of a novel method of human locomotion: the Poweriser spring boot shown in Figure P6.94. Promotional materials claim that an 80-kg man can jump up to 2 m high while wearing these devices. Estimate the spring constant of the leaf springs on the Poweriser. The maximum compression can be estimated from the figure.
Figure P6.94
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Conservation of energy allows us to predict the spring constant since the spring must store enoug...View the full answer
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