Question

A shell of mass 0.02kg is fired by a gun of mass 100kg. If the muzzle speed of the shell is 80m/s.What is the recoil speed of the gun?

Answer 1

Answer: the answer is 0.016 m/s

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Answer 2

Answer:

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Mass of gun M = 100kg

mass of shell  m = 0.020kg

Velocity of shell  v = 80m/s

Recoil velocity of Gun V=?

initial velocities of both gun and shell will be zero

so, the initial momentum of the system will be zero.

According to the law of conservation of momentum,

Initial momentum = Final momentum

so,

0=mv-MV

∴v=mv/M

= $\frac {0.020\:×\:80}{100}$

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=0.016 m/s

∴recoil velocity of Gun=0.016m/s