A 5.80-g lead bullet traveling at 600 m/s is stopped by a large tree. If half...

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A 5.80-g lead bullet traveling at 600 m/s is stopped by a largetree. If half the kinetic energy of the bullet is transformed intointernal energy and remains with the bullet while the other half istransmitted to the tree, what is the increase in temperature of thebullet?

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The kinetic energy is K 12 m v 05 x 580 x 103 x 600 1044 J Half this energy is E K2 1044 2 522 J The increase in temperature comes from thermal equation E m c T where m is the mass and c the specific heat of lead 128 JkgK Then T Emc    See Answer
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