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The inclined surfaces of two movable wedges of the same mass M are smoothly conjugated with the horizontal plane as shown in figure. A.small block of mass m slides down the left wedge from a height h. To what maximum, height will the block rises on the right wedge.

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`[(hM^(2))/(M+m)^(2)]`
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