For lunch, you and your friends decide to stop at the nearest deli and have a sandwich made fresh for you with 0.300 kg of italian ham. the slices of ham are weighed on a plate of mass 0.400 kg placed atop a vertical spring of negligible mass and force constant of 200 n/m. the slices of ham are dropped on the plate all at the same time from a height of 0.250 m. they make a totally inelastic collision with the plate and set the scale into vertical simple harmonic motion (shm). you may assume that the collision time is extremely small.
a) what is the amplitude of oscillation a of the scale after the slices of ham land on the plate?
b) what is the period of oscillation t of the scale?

this a false

explanation:

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force is based upon mass and acceleration.the statement is not always true.

it can be explained from newton's second law of motion.

as per newton's second law of motion the rate of change of momentum is directly proportional to the applied force and takes place along the direction of force.

mathematically it can be written as -

                                              ⇒      

here   k is the proportionality constant whose value is 1.

                                                            [a is the acceleration=dv/dt]

hence we see that force not only depends on mass and acceleration but also on velocity and rate of change of mass. force f will depend on mass and acceleration only when mass is constant.

hence the statement that force is based upon mass and acceleration is false.