A pendulum consists of a 2.0-kg block hanging on a 1.5-m length string. A 10-g bullet moving with a horizontal velocity of 900 m/s strikes, passes through, and emerges from the block (initially at rest) with a horizontal velocity of 300 m/s. To what maximum height above its initial position will the block swing?

A pendulum consists of a 2.0-kg block hanging on a 1.5-m length string. A 10-g bullet moving with a horizontal velocity of 900 m/s strikes, passes through, and emerges from the block (initially at rest) with a horizontal velocity of 300 m/s. To what maximum height above its initial position will the block swing?

Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems

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Chapter9: Dynamics Of A System Of Particles

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 9.36P: In an elastic collision of two particles with masses m1 and m2, the initial velocities are u1 and u2...

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