A 7 gram bullet, travelling horizontally at 380 m/s, pierces into your 2kg copy of Halliday, Resnick and Walker sitting on your table. The table and book have a coefficient of kinetic friction of u = 0.3. Find the distance, in meters, that the book and bullet will slide on the table before coming to rest.

A 7 gram bullet, travelling horizontally at 380 m/s, pierces into your 2kg copy of Halliday, Resnick and Walker sitting on your table. The table and book have a coefficient of kinetic friction of u = 0.3. Find the distance, in meters, that the book and bullet will slide on the table before coming to rest.

College Physics

11th Edition

ISBN:9781305952300

Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Publisher:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

Section: Chapter Questions

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