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    How do you solve this physics problem? Help!?

    40 g rifle bullet traveling 430 m/s buries itself in a 4.8 kg pendulum hanging on a 2.2 m long string, which makes the pendulum swing upward in an arc. Determine the maximum vertical displacement of the pendulum (height). (g = 9.8 m/s2)

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    In this first we apply conservation of momentum,

    M1V1=M2V2

    (40/1000)kg * 430 m/s = 4.8 kg * V2

    V2= 3.6 m/s.

    Now applying conservation of energy,

    Increase in potential energy of pendulum= decrease in kinetic energy

    gh=(1/2)v^2

    9.8 H = (1/2) * 12.96

    H= 0.661~ 0.66 m

 

 

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