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Homework Statement
An 16.2 g rifle bullet traveling 240 m/s buries itself in a 3.54 kg pendulum hanging on a 2.90 m long string, which makes the pendulum swing upward in an arc. Determine the horizontal component of the pendulum's displacement.
Homework Equations
I used the Y center of mass equation which is:
Ycm= m1y1+m2y2/m1+m2 but i got 2.9
The Attempt at a Solution
Im stuck and don't know what else to do