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You already have to momentum of walking forward, and going back and forth are the same distance. If you go back then you would have to stop, turn and walk, but if you go forward you just have to walk.

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2 years ago

In a ballistics test, a 24 g bullet traveling horizontally at 1200 m/s goes through a 31-cm-thick 320 kg stationary target and e

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Answer:

The velocity is $v_t = 0.02175 \ m/s$

Explanation:

From the question we are told that

The mass of the bullet is $m_b = 0.024 \ kg$

The initial speed of the bullet is $u_b = 1200 \ m/s$

The mass of the target is $m_t = 320 \ kg$

The initial velocity of target is $u_t = 0 \ m/s$

The final velocity of the bullet is is $v_b = 910 \ m/s$

Generally according to the law of momentum conservation we have that

$m_b * u_b + m_t * u_t = m_b * v_b + m_t * v_t$

=> $0.024 * 1200 + 320 * 0 = 0.024 * 910 + 320 * v_t$

=> $v_t = 0.02175 \ m/s$

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3 years ago