Question

A hammer weighing 1kg moving at a speed of 10m/s strikes the head of nail driving it 10cm into the wall. if mass of nail be negligible, find acceleration during impact????

plz show the process

Answer 1

here is the process
by using Newton's third law
we can calculate the the impact acc.
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hope u understand

Answer 2

Answer:

-500

v^2 -u^2 =2as

0-100=2×a×0.1

-100÷0.2=a

-500=a