If a spring is compressed against a wall by a wooden block and the force is removed, what will occur?

When a spring is compressed against a wall by a wooden block and the force is removed, the spring will return to its equilibrium position. This occurs because a spring has an inherent tendency to return to its original shape when not extended or compressed. In this scenario, since the wall is acting as a boundary, the only direction the spring can move is away from the wall, which would be to the left if we assume the spring is set up to move in that direction.

The force exerted by the spring when it is released causes this movement. Therefore, the correct outcome is that the spring will indeed move to the left. The nature of springs is that they exert a restoring force in the direction opposite to the displacement; in this case, since the spring was compressed against the wall, it will push away from that wall once the compressive force (in this case, the wooden block) is removed.