A Bullet with a Mass of 12 G Moving Horizontally

question 50

Multiple Choice

A bullet with a mass of 12 g moving horizontally strikes a fixed, stationary block of wood and penetrates a distance of 5.2 cm. The speed of the bullet just before the collision is 640 m/s. Assuming the block remains stationary, magnitude of the average force that the wood exerted on the bullet was

• A) 4.7 x 10⁴ N
• B) 74 N
• C) 4.7 x 10⁶ N
• D) 7.4 x 10² N
• E) 4.7 x 10⁵ N

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