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Question #337660

Find the velocity of a recoil of a gun of mass 5 kg from which a bullet of mass 10 g is fired at a velocity of 250m/sec-1

Expert's answer

The conservation of momentum gives

"v=\\frac{m}{M}u=\\frac{0.01}{5}*250=0.5\\:\\rm m\/s"

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