Iat Iiser
Simple Harmonic Motion
IAT (IISER) 2026
MCQ+4 / -12026
A sphere and a cube of equal masses on a horizontal frictionless floor, are confined between two vertical walls, as shown in the figure. The cube is attached to the wall by a massless spring. At the equilibrium position of the spring, the sphere just touches the cube. The cube is moved towards the left by a small amount $\ell$ from its equilibrium position, compressing the spring and is released at $t = 0$. The system keeps returning to its initial configuration as that of $t = 0$ with a time period $T$. If all the collisions are elastic, which of the following statements is correct?


