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Grade 12Mechanics

how can you explain the recoil of a gun using the concept of centre of mass?

Profile image of soma khan pali
11 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Saurabh Kumar
11 Years ago
If Fext = 0, no change in COM,
Linear momentum would be conserve then, i.e.
m1(dx1/dt) = m2(dx2.dt)