Humans can impact the Earth in both positive and negative ways. Cutting down forests, mining for resources, and creating factories that produce toxic gases are several of the negative ways that humans can affect the environment

Ablock of mass m slides on a horizontal frictionless table with an initial speed v0 . it then compresses a spring of force constant k and is brought to rest. the acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 . how much is the spring compressed x from its natural length?