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An engineer is designing a spring to be placed at the bottom of an elevator shaft, if the elevator cable should break at a height h above the top of the spring, calculate the required value of the spring constant k, so that passsengers undergo an acceleration of no more than 10 g when brought to rest, Let M be the total mass of the elevator and passengers

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