In a police ballistics test, a 10.0-g bullet moving at 300 m/s is fired into a 1.00-kg block at rest. The bullet goes through the block almost instantaneously and emerges with 50.0% of its original speed

What is the speed of the block just after the bullet emerges? A) 1.50 m/s
B) 2.97 m/s
C) 3.00 m/s
D) 273 m/s


A

Physics & Space Science

You might also like to view...

When light enters glass from air, which of these properties of the light change?

a. frequency b. wavelength c. speed d. all of the above

Physics & Space Science

Fiber optics has to do with:

a. light having fiber characteristics as well as wave and particle characteristics. b. the color of fabrics. c. string theory. d. none of the above.

Physics & Space Science

Why do we think that the solar system formed from a rotating, collapsing gas cloud that ended up as a disk orbiting the Sun?

a. Most of the planets revolve and rotate in the same direction and in the same plane. b. We see clouds of gas and dust in space with apparently young stars in them. c. We see disks around young stars. d. All of the above.

Physics & Space Science

Sequence the events in the origination of different types of meteorites

What will be an ideal response?

Physics & Space Science