Q. A collar of mass is constrained to move along a horizontal smooth and fixed circular track of radius . The spring lying in the plane of the circular track and having spring constant is undeformed when the collar is at . If the collar starts from rest at , the normal reaction exerted by the track on the collar when it passes through is

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Solution:


Initial extension will be equal to .
Initial energy
Reaching , we get

From at ,
we get