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? asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 8 years ago

A 15 g bullet is fired horizontally into a block of wood with mass of 2.5kg and embedded in the block. Initial?

A 15 g bullet is fired horizontally into a block of wood with mass of 2.5kg and embedded in the block. Initially the block of wood hangs vertically and the impact causes the block to swing so that its center of mass raises 15 cm. Find velocity of bullet just before impact.

2)Prove that the fractional loss in kinetic energy for the ball-pendulum system is given by equation n=1-m/m+M

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    8 years ago
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    What is the density of the wood how far away and velocity of the bullet and why 15 a gram that's unrealistic.

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