Energy Conservation With Conservative Forces: If a spring-operated gun can shoot a pellet to a maximum height of 100 m on Earth, how high could the pellet rise if fired on the Moon, where g = 1.6 m/s2?

A. 17 m
B. 160 m
C. 3.6 km
D. 100 m
E. 610 m


Answer: E

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