In the Ballistic Pendulum Lab, a ball is fired into a block suspended from strings. The ball embeds in the block, and the ball-block system swings up to a height h from a reference level after the collision.
True or False:
The collision between the ball and the block is inelastic and the momentum is conserved.
The initial kinetic energy of the ball is converted to the potential energy of the ball-block system at height h.
The kinetic energy of the ball-block system right after the collision is converted to the potential energy of the ball-block system at height h.
The momentum of the ball-block swing (pendulum) is not conserved.