If a bullet loses 1/nth of its velocity while passing through a plank,then no of planks required to stop the bullet is?

1 answer:

8 0

Based on the answer provided, it seems the writer wanted you to assume that the energy loss per plank is constant. This is not the same as the bullet losing 1/nth1/nth of its velocity per plank (however, the fact that the question does not mention this assumption arguably makes the question ambiguous).

With this assumption, the energy loss becomes

ΔE = 1/2 mv2 − 1/2 m (v−v/n) 2

and the number of planks NN becomes

N = 1/2mv2 /ΔE = n2/ 2n−1

Otherwise, if you assume that the bullet loses 1/nth1/nth of its velocity per plank, then the answer is N=∞

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