Posted by please help on Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 7:35pm.
Use the law of conservation of momentum. The bullet and the gun will have equal and opposite momenta right after the bullet leaves the rifle.
2.0 * Vrecoil = 0.05 kg * 200 m/s
Solve for Vrecoil
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