A spring gun fires a bullet of mass m=.04 kg horizontally at a ballistic pendulum apparatus...

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A spring gun fires a bullet of mass m=.04 kg horizontally at aballistic pendulum apparatus with a mass M=.350. the bullet lodgesitself into the pendulum. After collision, the center of mass ofthe bullet and pendulum rises by .07 meters. What is theapproximate initial speed v of the bullet?

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In ballistic pendulum experiment A bullet of mass m traveling with speed v strikes with a pendulum of mass M then this pendulum rises to a height of    See Answer
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