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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 22, 2012 at 9:00am.

A 16.0 g bullet is fired horizontally into a 87 g wooden block that is initially at rest on a frictionless horizontal surface and connected to a spring having spring constant 168 N/m. The bullet becomes embedded in the block. The bullet block system compresses the spring by a maximum of 1.30 cm. (a) What is the velocity of the block once the bullet is imbedded?

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