What is the force (in Newton) in the blue spring?
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Let magenta lines be the connector's final position.
Also, let F 1 , F 2 , F 3 , F 4 , F 5 and u 1 , u 2 , u 3 be the displacements of connectors and spring forces, respectively.
Now, we can write each force wrt. displacements and spring constants.
F 1 = u 1 × 2 k F 2 = u 2 × 2 k F 3 = ( u 2 − u 1 ) × 3 k F 4 = ( u 3 − u 1 ) × k F 5 = ( u 3 − u 2 ) × k
List down the force equilibriums at each connector,
F 4 + F 5 = 1 0 N F 1 = F 3 + F 4 ⋯ ( 1 ) F 5 = F 3 + F 2 ⋯ ( 2 )
Rewrite ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) in the form of displacements and spring constants,
F 1 = F 3 + F 4 ⟹ k × 2 u 1 = k × ( 3 u 2 − 4 u 1 − u 3 ) ⋯ ( 3 ) F 5 = F 3 + F 2 ⟹ k × ( u 3 − u 2 ) = k × ( 5 u 2 − 3 u 1 ) ⋯ ( 4 )
From ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) we can figure out u 1 = u 2
Then the blue spring force F 3 = ( u 2 − u 1 ) × 3 k = 0
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I did it without much calculations.
Just remove the 3k spring and both the spring systems (springs connected by the red connectors) turn out to be same thus facing same elongation .
Hence, same velocity.
Thus the relative velocity will be 0. So no elongation and no net force.