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| ==== Main Problem ==== | ==== Main Problem ==== |
| After your team gave such accurate advice regarding the safety of the monitoring equipment on top of FTOE, the local S.P.A.R.T.A.N. station chief has asked you to assist with one of the top secret projects underway at the lab. This time, in an effort to prevent future storms, you are tasked with overseeing the design and launch of an experimental government device know as a T.N.D. (Thundercloud Neutralizing Drone). She says she can't tell you why the drone was developed or how it works, but it needs to remain stationary in the center of a storm cloud, where it can be remotely triggered to neutralize the charges in the cloud and stop the storm. The T.N.D. is spherical with a radius of $r_{TND} = 2$ m, and has a mass of $m_{TND} = 500$ kg. It has a small propulsion system that can be turned on remotely to allow it to maintain its altitude, but the propulsion system isn't powerful enough to launch the drone. | After your team gave such accurate advice regarding the safety of the monitoring equipment on top of FTOE, the local S.P.A.R.T.A.N. station chief has asked you to assist with one of the top secret projects underway at the lab. This time, in an effort to prevent future storms, you are tasked with overseeing the design and launch of an experimental government device know as a T.N.D. (Thundercloud Neutralizing Drone). She says she can't tell you why the drone was developed or how it works, but it needs to remain stationary in the center of a storm cloud, where it can be remotely triggered to neutralize the charges in the cloud and stop the storm. The T.N.D. is spherical with a radius of $R_{TND} = 2$ m, and has a mass of $m_{TND} = 500$ kg. It has a small propulsion system that can be turned on remotely to allow it to maintain its altitude, but the propulsion system isn't powerful enough to launch the drone. |
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| In order to deploy the T.N.D., it must be driven by truck to the storm and launched upward via a massive spring to the proper height in the atmosphere. Once at thundercloud height, its propulsion system will hold it in place while it neutralizes the cloud. You are tasked with carrying out the crucial step BEFORE the launch can happen: compressing the **locking** truck-mounted spring that will be used in the launch. The mechanism for how the spring is compressed is depicted in the output below: | In order to deploy the T.N.D., it must be driven by truck to the storm and launched upward via a massive spring to the proper height in the atmosphere. Once at thundercloud height, its propulsion system will hold it in place while it neutralizes the cloud. You are tasked with carrying out the crucial step BEFORE the launch can happen: compressing the **locking** truck-mounted spring that will be used in the launch. The mechanism for how the spring is compressed is depicted in the output below: |