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Ballistic Pendulum



A rifle bullet of mass m = 0.03 kg traveling at vb = 240 m/s collides with and embeds itself in a pendulum of mass M = 2.88 kg, initially at rest and suspended vertically by massless strings of length L = 2 m.


How high does the pendulum-bullet combination rise after the collision?

h = m