A rifle of mass 5 kg fires a bullet of mass 40 gm. The bullet leaves the barrel of the rifle with a velocity 200 ms. If the bullet takes 0.004 s to move through the barrel, calculate the recoil velocity of the rifle.
1.6 m/sec
Applying law of conservation of momentum, m1 a1 = m2 a2
5 × (recoil velocity of rifle) = 0.04 × (200msec)
Recoil velocity of rifle = 85 = 1.6 msec