Question

2. You are interested in ballistics research, and so you are looking at ways to create data tables for reference. As part of this project, you fire a gun with a 27 g bullet at a known muzzle velocity of 512 m/s directly into a 4.5 kg piece of wood that sits at the edge of a 85 cm tall table. The bullet gets stuck in the wood, and they go off the table together. What will the speed of the block (with the bullet inside) be right before they hit the floor? Use kinematic equation as well as show free body diagram.

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