I keep on getting the second part wrong. Can you please tell me where I messed up? Thank you.
The lead female character in the movie Diamonds Are Forever is standing at the edge of an offshore oil rig. As she fires the gun, she is driven back over the edge and into the sea. Suppose the mass of a bullet is 0.008 kg, and its velocity is +731 m/s. Her mass (including the gun) is 47 kg.
(a) What recoil velocity does she acquire in response to a single shot from a stationary position, assuming that no external force keeps her in place?
(b) Under the same assumption, what would be her recoil velocity if, instead, she shoots a blank cartridge that ejects a mass of 5.0 * 10-4 kg at a velocity of +731 m/s?
so i got part a,) which was -.1244, which is right.
i did 5e-4*734/58 and got -.0078, but webassign keeps telling me it's wrong
.0005 * 731 + 47 * x = 0
x = -.00778