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umka2103
2 days ago
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Someone fires a 0.04 kg bullet at a block of wood that has a mass of 0.5 kg. (The block of wood is sitting on a frictionless sur

face, so it moves freely when the bullet hits it). The wood block is initially at rest. The bullet is traveling 300 m/s when it hits the wood block and sticks inside it. Now the bullet and the wood block move together as one object. How fast are they traveling?
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x, the distance between minima in the diffraction pattern (in single slit setups)

w, the fringe width for double slit setups

1. In a double slit experiment, the fringe width is also recognized as the distance between Maxima.

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