A 100 kg gun fires a ball of 1kg horizontally from a cliff of height 500m. It falls on the ground at a distance of 400m from the bottom of the cliff. Find the recoil velocity of the gun. (acceleration due to gravity = 10 m/s-2)

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This is a Short Answer type Questions as classified in NCERT Exemplar

Explanation- mass of gun =100kg

Mass of ball =1kg and height of cliff = 500m

So horizontal distance travelled by the ball is x = 400m

So h =1/2gt2

500= 1 2 10 ( t ) 2 so t= 10s

X=ut then u= 400/10=40m/s

 According to principle of conservation pf mom

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