Question
A bullet with mass 60.0 g is fired with an initial velocity of 575 m/s from a gun with
mass 4.50 kg. What is the speed of the recoil of the gun?
mass 4.50 kg. What is the speed of the recoil of the gun?
Answers
Ben
(massbullet * velocitybullet)/massgun
(60.0 * 575/4.50) = 7666.66666
Which rounded off becomes 76.7m/s
(60.0 * 575/4.50) = 7666.66666
Which rounded off becomes 76.7m/s
Lester
you didn't convert G into KG, so the answer would be 7.67m/s