A 290 g bullet moving at 260 ms enters and stops in an


A 2.90 g bullet moving at 260 m/s enters and stops in an initially stationary 2.80 kg wooden block on a horizontal frictionless surface.

A- What's the speed of the bullet block combination?

B- What fraction of the bullet's kinetic energy was lost in this perfectly inelastic collision?

C- How much work was done in stopping the bullet?

D- If the bullet penetrated 5.00 into the wood, what was the average stopping force?

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