Tyler is jumping on a trampoline, he has distorted the fabric of the trampoline by 0.32 m using a force of 535 N. What is the energy stored in the trampoline?

Question

Tyler is jumping on a trampoline, he has distorted the fabric of the trampoline by 0.32 m using a force of 535 N. What is the energy stored in the trampoline?

Answer 1

The energy stored in the trampoline equals the work done

by Tyler's body mass in accelerating (or speeding up due to

Earth gravity) through a distance of 0.32 meter before his

feet strike the trampoline fabric.

On Earth, this body weight or force is

(535/9.80665) kg × (9.80665 meters per second every second).

Build the final answer as

(54.55481739) kg x (9.80665 m/s²) x (0.32 m)

which simplifies to 171.2 (kg•m/s²)•m or 171.2 N•m or 171.2 Joules.