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A bullets moving with a velocity of 200m/s strikes a wooden block and pierces up to 10 cm into it. Calculate the magnitude of retardation of the bullet, while piercing the wooden block, assuming the retardation to be uniform. What time is taken by the bullets for piercing through the wooden block?

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u=200m/sv=0s=10 cm = 0.1 mv2=u2+2asu2=-2asa=-200×2002×0.1=-200000 m/s2Negative sign because retardationv =u +atu =-att =-ua=200200000=0.001s

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