Conservation of Momentum
A gun firing a bullet
In this video I show you how to handle a shot fired from a gun and talk to you about recoil.
A bullet is fired from a gun with a horizontal velocity of 500 ms-1. The mass of the gun is 4 kg and the mass of the bullet is 50 g. Find the initial speed of recoil of the gun.
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