Asked by Christine

A bullet with mass 0.40 kg is fired with an initial velocity of 400 m/s from a gun with mass 5.0 kg. The speed of the recoil of the gun is?
Answered by drwls
See what you get by using the law of conservation of momentum. Total momentum remains zero. Bullet and rifle movie in opposite directions, and their momenta must cancel each other.
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