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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 10:54am.

If a 5.40g bullet is fired horizontally into a suspended(hanging)10kg block of wood and causes the block, with bullet embedded, to move off with horizontal velocity of 0.30m/s,
What is the impact velocity of the bullet?

Physics - Damon, Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 10:57am
momentum before = momentum after

.0054 v = 10.0054 ( .3)

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