Check out this entirely awesome video experiment from Derek Muller (Vertasium youtube channel). The video shows the classic problem of a bullet fired into a block of wood. If the bullet is fired below ...

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You may remember the Bullet Block experiment that we posted eleven days ago. In it, Veritasium raised a puzzling physics conundrum and tasked us to find a solution. Here's the answer!

The science video blog Veritasium offers this nifty little puzzle. Does a wooden block, when shot by a vertically aimed rifle, go higher when it’s hit dead center or off-center? In the latter case, ...