Homework Help: phys

Posted by gg on Monday, October 18, 2010 at 9:43pm.

A 5g bullet is fired from a 5000g gun. If the bullet leaves the gun going +800m/s, with what speed does the gun recoil?

phys - Carrie, Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 5:33pm
-.8m/s
phys - Crazey Juggalo, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 10:14am
Speed of recoil of the gun = change in momentum/mass of the bullet
= 5 x 10-3 x 800/5 msec-1 = 0.8 msec-1
(Found on wiki answers (searched on google))

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