A shooter loosely holds a 3.00kg mass rifle so that he can back off freely when firing. Fires a 5.00kg bullet with a horizontal velocity relative to that of the ground of v = 300m / s. What is the recoil speed of the rifle? What linear momentum does the bullet have?
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According to this principle, the total momentum before the firing is equal to the total momentum after the firing. Before the firing, the total momentum is zero because both the rifle and the bullet are at rest. After the firing, the bullet has a momentum of Show more…
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