You fire a 52 g arrow so that it is moving at 93 m/s when it hits and embeds in a 9 kg wooden block at rest. Determine (a) the velocity of the block after the arrow embeds in it and (b) the increase in internal energy of the system consisting of the arrow and block during this process.

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You fire a 52 g arrow so that it is moving at 93 m/s when it hits and embeds in a 9 kg wooden block at rest. Determine (a) the velocity of the block after the arrow embeds in it and (b) the increase in internal energy of the system consisting of the arrow and block during this process.

 

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Using the conservation of momentum,

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