A man with mass $m$ jumps off of a high bridge with a bungee cord attached to his ankles. The man falls through a maximum distance $H$ at which point the bungee cord brings him to a momentary rest before he bounces back up. The bungee cord is perfectly elastic, obeying Hooke's force law with a spring constant k, and stretches from an original length of $L_0$ to a final length $L = L_0 + h$. The maximum tension in the Bungee cord is four times the weight of the man.
Determine the spring constant $k$.
(A) k = mg/h
(B) k = 2mg/h
(C) k = mg/H
(D) k = 4mg/H
(E) k = 8mg/H
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(question id: 58)