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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

James A. Ejiwale

leadership, what works, and new approaches to explore through constructivecriticism from the learning communities that includes faculty, students (peer groups), and thecommunity they serve. Therefore for this article, learning communities will be defined “asgroups of people engaged in intellectual interaction for the purpose of learning” (Cross3, 1998). 3Service learning at Jackson State UniversityThe mission of the Department of Technology is to provide a nationally accredited program,which serves the technical, managerial, and communication needs of persons desiring to enter oradvance professionally in an industrial technology related career

Collection

2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Parameswar Hari

approach we will again use the conservation of mechanical energy for the mass bulletsystem and write kinetic and potential energy and set them equal to each other as below. (MB + mb) gH = ½ (MB + mb) VB2 (8)where the symbols MB, mb, and H were defined previously in solution 1 and 2. VB is the speed ofthe bullet and the block after collision. From Eqn. 8, we also obtain the same value for the finalvelocity of the block and the bullet (VB) equal to 4.43 m/s as in solution 1 and 2. Now, byapplying conservation of linear momentum as in Eqn. 4, we obtain the initial speed of the bullet(vb) as 143 m/s.Critical evaluation of solutionsIn this new problem solving approach, instead of presenting the correct