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A 50 g bullet is fired from a 10 kg gun with a speed of 500 ms-1 . What is the speed of the recoil of the gun?

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Initial momentum = 0 

Using conservation of linear momentum mv + MV = 0

V = \(\frac{-mv}{M}\) ⇒ V = 2.5 m/s



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