JEE · NEET Previous Year Question

A bullet of mass 10 g moving horizontal with a velocity of strikes a wood block of mass 2 kg which is suspended by light inextensible string of length 5 m. As result, the centre of gravity of the block found to rise a vertical distance of 10 cm. The speed of the bullet after it emerges of horizontally from the block will be [NEET 2016]

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Answer: C. Full step-by-step solution below.

  1. A
  2. B
  3. C
  4. D

Correct answer: C

Solution

(c) According to the law of conservation of momentum,

Also velocity of the block just after the collision is

…(ii)
From Eqs. (i) and (ii), we have

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