If the force were constant or increasing, we could guess that the speed of the sardines is increasing. Since the force is decreasing but staying in contact with the can, we know that the can is slowing down, so there must be friction involved.
Work is the integral of (force x distance) over the distance, which is just the area under the distance/force graph.
The integral of exp(-8x) dx that we need is (-1/8)exp(-8x) evaluated from 0.47 to 1.20 .
I get 0.00291 of a Joule ... seems like a very suspicious solution, but for an exponential integral at a cost of 5 measly points, what can you expect.
On the other hand, it's not really too unreasonable. The force is only 0.023 Newton at the beginning, and 0.000067 newton at the end, and the distance is only about 0.7 meter, so there certainly isn't a lot of work going on.
The main question we're left with after all of this is: Why sardines ? ?
Solution :
Given :
Mass attached to the spring = 4 kg
Mass dropped = 6 kg
Force constant = 100 N/m
Initial amplitude = 2 m
Therefore,
a). 

= 10 m/s
Final velocity, v at equilibrium position, v = 5 m/s
Now, 
A' = amplitude = 1.4142 m
b). 
m' = 2m
Hence, 
c). 

Therefore, factor 
Thus, the energy will change half times as the result of the collision.
Answer:

t'=1.1897 μs
Explanation:
First we will calculate the velocity of micrometeorite relative to spaceship.
Formula:

where:
v is the velocity of spaceship relative to certain frame of reference = -0.82c (Negative sign is due to antiparallel track).
u is the velocity of micrometeorite relative to same frame of reference as spaceship = .82c (Negative sign is due to antiparallel track)
u' is the relative velocity of micrometeorite with respect to spaceship.
In order to find u' , we can rewrite the above expression as:


u'=0.9806c
Time for micrometeorite to pass spaceship can be calculated as:

(c = 3*10^8 m/s)


t'=1.1897 μs