An 8.0 g bullet is shot into a 3.0 kg block, at rest on a frictionless horizontal surface. The bullet remains lodged in the block. The block (with bullet) than moves into a spring and compresses it by 3.3 cm. The spring constant is 2700 N/m.
An 8.0 g bullet is shot into a 3.0 kg block, at rest on a frictionless horizontal surface. The bullet remains lodged in the block. The block (with bullet) than moves into a spring and compresses it by 3.3 cm. The spring constant is 2700 N/m.
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What is the velocity of the bullet-block combo after the bullet lodges into the block? This before they hit the spring.
Transcribed Image Text:An 8.0 g bullet is shot into a 3.0 kg block, at rest on a frictionless horizontal
surface. The bullet remains lodged in the block.
The block (with bullet) than moves into a spring and compresses it by 3.3 cm. The
spring constant is 2700 N/m.
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