8. A machine gun is attached to a railroad flatcar, at rest, that can roll with negligible friction. If the railroad car (including the machine gun) has a mass of 6.25 x 104 kg, how many bullets of mass 25 g would have to be fired at 250 m/s off the back to give the railroad car a forward velocity of 0.5 m/s? A. 1000 bullets B. 2000 bullets C. 3000 bullets D. 4000 bullets E. 5000 bullets

8. A machine gun is attached to a railroad flatcar, at rest, that can roll with negligible friction. If the railroad car (including the machine gun) has a mass of 6.25 x 104 kg, how many bullets of mass 25 g would have to be fired at 250 m/s off the back to give the railroad car a forward velocity of 0.5 m/s? A. 1000 bullets B. 2000 bullets C. 3000 bullets D. 4000 bullets E. 5000 bullets

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College Physics

11th Edition

ISBN:9781305952300

Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

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Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

Section: Chapter Questions

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