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AP Physics C: Mechanics
3.2 Work
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A horizontal setup viewed from the side. On the far left is a vertical hatched wall. Attached to the wall is a horizontal coiled spring extending to the right along a horizontal axis. The right free end of the spring is at an equilibrium mark labeled 0 on the axis. Two dashed vertical reference lines intersect the axis to the left of 0, labeled -d and -2d respectively, with -2d closer to the wall. A rectangular block is in contact with the free end of the spring at position -d. A single horizontal arrow points to the left toward the block, labeled F_ext. A horizontal coordinate axis below shows a tick mark at 0, a tick mark at -d, and a tick mark at -2d, with an arrow pointing to the right labeled x. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
A non-linear spring compressed along the horizontal x-axis by an external force.
A non-linear hardening spring exerts a restoring force \(\vec{F}_s = -(kx + \beta x^3)\hat{i}\), where \(k\) and \(\beta\) are positive constants and \(x\) is the displacement of its free end from equilibrium at \(x = 0\). For an ideal linear spring with \(\beta = 0\), an external agent does work \(W_{\text{ideal}} = \dfrac{3}{2}kd^2\) to slowly compress the spring from \(x = -d\) to \(x = -2d\), where \(d > 0\). Which of the following definite integrals correctly represents the total work done by the external agent to compress the non-linear spring over this same interval from \(x = -d\) to \(x = -2d\)?

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