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Just wanted to post an update, I got the right answer: it was (h-d) + (-mb√2gd... thanks for the help everyone! Pesky sign errors...

Ah I think I see where I went wrong, thank you! It should be -mb√2gd.

I think it might be a sign error related to g but I'm not sure. When you have g in an equation is it supposed to just be the magnitude? I viewed g as -9.8, which is why I subtracted the second term from (h-d) iirc (it's 5:30 AM right now and I haven't had the chance to really look it over in...

Here's the situation: A small block of wood of inertia mb is released from rest a distance h above the ground, directly above your head. You decide to shoot it with your pellet gun, which fires a pellet of inertia mp. After the block has fallen a distance d, the pellet hits it and becomes...

This is with regard to 2 boxes of different masses that are stacked on top of each other and pushed at a constant velocity across a table that has friction. One of the sentences is right: "When the boxes move at a constant speed, there is no change in momentum. This means that the boxes are an...