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Units for spring constant I have the question: > A baby of mass $9.0\;$kg bounces with a period of $1.2\;$s in a baby bouncer. What is the spring constant of the bouncer? I rearranged the equation $T = 2\pi$ $\sqrt{\frac{m}{k}}$ to make $k$ the subject. $$k = \frac{4 \pi^2 m}{T^2}$$ The answer I got for this is $k= 246.74$. However, I am not sure what the units should be.

The units are both $\text{N}\cdot \text{m}^{-1}$ or $\text{kg}\cdot \text{s}^{-2}$.

The units of the mass $m$ is $\text{kg}$ and the units of the period $T$ is $\text{s}$.

Substituting the units into your formula, you get:

$$\frac{\text{kg}}{\text{s}^{2}}=\text{kg}\cdot \text{s}^{-2}$$

We can ignore the $4\pi^2$, since it is a dimensionless (unitless) constant.

Note that $\text{N}\cdot \text{m}^{-1}$ is equivalent to $\text{kg}\cdot \text{s}^{-2}$ because the units for force can be written as $\text{kg} \cdot \text{m} \cdot {\text{s}^{-2}}$ and so, substituting this into $\text{N} \cdot \text{m}^{-1}$ gives $\text{kg} \cdot \text{m} \cdot {\text{s}^{-2}} \cdot \text{m}^{-1}=\text{kg} \cdot {\text{s}^{-2}}$, which was the result obtained.

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