Can You Solve This Physics Brain Teaser of the Bullet-Block Experiment? [Video -UPDAT

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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...

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