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i think that elastic collision most of the velocity becomes transferred to the object?

i used mgh=0.5mv^2 for part a and got 12.7 m/s ^2 for the answer I am not sure if that was right . and then i was stuck for the rest of the attempts

NO TEMPLATE BECAUSE THREAD WAS STARTED IN WRONG FORUM A wrecking ball is a heavy steel ball, usually hung from a crane that is used for demolishing large buildings. Suppose we had a crane with a wrecking ball with a mass of m1 = 12,000 lbs. The crane produces a displacement on the ball of a...