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* In a first experiment, a 30-g clay ball is shot at a speed of 1.3 m/s horizontally from the edge of a table. The ball lands on the floor 0.60 m from the table. In a second experiment, the same ball is shot at the same speed, but this time the ball hits a wooden block that is placed on the edge of the table. The ball sticks to the block, and the block lands on the floor 0.06 m from the table. (a) Represent the second experiment with impulse-momentum bar charts, treating the x- and y-components separately; draw two sets of bar charts, first taking the wooden block as a system and then taking the block and the clay ball as a system (initial state: just before the clay ball hits the block; final state: just before the block touches the floor). Determine (b) the mass of the block and (c) the height of the table. Indicate any assumptions that you made.
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