A gun is shot into a 0.50 kN block which is hanging from a rope of 1.8 m long. The weight of the bullet is equal to 5 N with a muzzle velocity of 320 m/s. How high will the block swing after it was hit by the bullet?

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A gun is shot into a 0.50 kN block which is hanging from a rope of 1.8 m long. The weight of the bullet is equal to 5 N with a muzzle velocity of 320 m/s. How high will the block swing after it was hit by the bullet?

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