A 1.72 kg block of soft wood is suspended by two strings from the ceiling. The wood is free to rotate in pendulum-like fashion when a force is exerted upon it. An 8.5 g bullet is fired into the wood. The bullet enters the wood at 431 m/s and exits the opposite side shortly thereafter. If the wood rises to a height of 13.8 cm after the collision, then what is the exit speed of the bullet?

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A 1.72 kg block of soft wood is suspended by two strings from the ceiling. The wood is free to rotate
in pendulum-like fashion when a force is exerted upon it. An 8.5 g bullet is fired into the wood. The
bullet enters the wood at 431 m/s and exits the opposite side shortly thereafter. If the wood rises to a
height of 13.8 cm after the collision, then what is the exit speed of the bullet?  

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