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Ballistic Pendulum
Ballistic Pendulum
11. Momentum & Impulse / Ballistic Pendulum / Problem 1

An 18.0 g dart tip is shot horizontally from a toy gun. The tip collides with a 360 g polyester sphere suspended by a 0.750 m light string and gets stuck to it. The breaking strength of the string is 5.00 N. Find the tip's maximum speed, just before the collision, that will not provoke a string crack.

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