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A) A 12.0-g bullet is fired horizontally into a 113-g wooden block that is initially at rest on a frictionless horizontal surface and connected to a spring having spring constant 149 N/m. The bullet becomes embedded in the block. If the bullet-block system compresses the spring by a maximum of 76.0 cm, what was the speed of the bullet at impact with the block?
B)A 0.033-kg bullet is fired vertically at 238 m/s into a 0.15-kg baseball that is initially at rest. How high does the combined bullet and baseball rise after the collision, assuming the bullet embeds itself in the ball?