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BryMan92
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Homework Statement
Last year, I remember doing a ballistic pendulum problem, and this year I forgot how I did it. Essentially, what happens if you have a ballistic pendulum, of length 5m, and you shoot a bullet at it that cause it to go to a height of 14m? (What I mean is that the bullet causes the pendulum to rotate several times). So, after spinning around, how high will the pendulum go before momentarily stopping?
Homework Equations
MiVi=MfVf
KE=PE
The Attempt at a Solution
I figured you'd just subtract 10 (Since the max. height the pendulum can go is 10 m), and you'd get 4m? I'm drawing a blank.
Thanks for the help!