Free response questions 1. This question is a long free-response question. Show your work for each part of the question. A company selling a type of spring makes the following claim: "The elastic potential energy that the spring is capable of storing for a given compression distance does not decrease, even after the spring compresses and/or stretches hundreds of times. The students in a physics class have decided to test the company's claim (a) [1] i. State a basic physics principle or law the students could use in designing an experiment to test the company's claim. ii. Using the principle or law stated in part (a)i, determine an equation for the elastic potential energy stored in the spring in terms of quantities that can be obtained from measurements made with equipment usually found in a school physics laboratory. (b) Design an experimental procedure the students could use to collect the data needed to test the company's claim. Assume equipment usually found in a school physics laboratory is available. [5] In the table below, list the quantities and associated symbols that would be measured in your experiment and the equipment used to measure them. Also list the equipment that would be used to measure each quantity. You do not need to fill in every row. If you need additional rows, you may add them to the spa just below the table.