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A block of mass $10\text{ kg}$ is dropped from a height of $10\text{ m}$ from the earths surface and it falls onto a vertical helical spring of stiffness $5000 \text{ N/m}$ and length $50\text{ cm}$ . The maximum compression of the spring (in meters) is

Take $g =10 \text{ m/s}^2$ .