Newton's first law of motion states that. an object on the rest or motion is stay the same unless external force applied on it.
Answer:
-0.01052 m/s
Explanation:
M = mass of ship = 
m = mass of shell = 1100 kg
v = velocity of shell = 550 m/s
u = recoil velocity of ship
As linear momentum is conserved

The recoil velocity of the ship taking the firing direction to be the positive direction is -0.01052 m/s
Explanation:
Sodium is a chemical element with the symbol Na (from Latin "natrium") and atomic number 11. It is a soft, silvery-white, highly reactive metal. Sodium is an alkali metal, being in group 1 of the periodic table. ... The free metal does not occur in nature, and must be prepared from compounds.