A particle of mass $m$ moves in the potential energy $U$ shown above. The period of the motion when the particle has total energy $E$ is
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As seen from graph, we can infer that for $x<0$ particle is in $SHM$ as in spring. and for $x>0$ particle is in influence of gravity i.e. thrown upwards with some initial velocity.

So we can divide the time period in two parts. first $T_{1}$ and second $T_{2}$

$T_{1}$ is half of the time period of a full SHM i.e. $T_{1}=\pi \sqrt{\frac{m}{k}}$

$E=\frac{1}{2} m v_{\max }^{2}$

$\Rightarrow v_{\max }=\sqrt{\frac{2 E}{m}}$

and $T_{2}$ is the time during which the particle remains in air when it is thrown upwards with velocity $v_{\max }=\sqrt{\frac{2 E}{m}}$

$0=\sqrt{\frac{2 E}{m}} t-\frac{1}{2} g t^{2} \quad$ since $s=u t-\frac{1}{2} g t^{2}$

$\Rightarrow T_{2}=2 \sqrt{2 E / m g^{2}}$

So total time time period $T=\pi \sqrt{\frac{m}{k}}+2 \sqrt{\frac{2 E}{m g^{2}}}$

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