How high will a block rise as it swings on the string? What happened to the 99% of

Shannon Y

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the KE of the bullet? A bulet of mass 10 gm moving at 200 m/sec strikes and lodges in a block of mass 1 kg hanging from a string. It turns out that one percent of the kinetic energy of the bullet was transferred to the glock. How high will the block rise as it swings on the string? What happened to the remaining 99 percent of kinetic energy of the bullet?
 
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