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A bullet of mass moving horizontally with speed hits a wooden block of mass that is suspended from a massless string. The bullet gets lodged into the block and comes into halt. If the block-bullet combine swings to a maximum height then how much of the initial kinetic energy of the bullet is lost in the collision?
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Given: Mass of bullet , the velocity of bullet and mass of the wooden block .
Let the velocity of the bullet after the collision with the wooden block be
Applying the law of conservation of momentum, we obtain
Now applying the law of conservation of mechanical energy, we obtain
Putting the value of in the above equation, we get
Maximum height of the block-bullet system
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