AQA M3 2016 June — Question 1 2 marks

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleM3 (Mechanics 3)
Year2016
SessionJune
Marks2
TopicMomentum and Collisions 1

1 At a firing range, a man holds a gun and fires a bullet horizontally. The bullet is fired with a horizontal velocity of \(400 \mathrm {~m} \mathrm {~s} ^ { - 1 }\). The mass of the gun is 1.5 kg and the mass of the bullet is 30 grams.
  1. Find the speed of recoil of the gun.
  2. Find the magnitude of the impulse exerted by the man on the gun in bringing the gun to rest after the bullet is fired.
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