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Grade 11Mechanics

how yo find velociyt of centre of a bullet w.r.t ground after it stirkes a hoop o negligible thickness with initial vel. vo and getss embedded to it?

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9 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
let u be the mass density of the hoop.
mass would be   = u*l where l is the length of the hoop.
Thus from momentum conservation,
m*vo = (m+ u*l)v
v = mvo /(m + ul) m/s would be the final velocity.