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Grade 11Mechanics

On passing through a wooden sheet a bullet looses 1/20 F initial velocity.Then the minimum number of sheets required to completely stop the bullet will be?

Profile image of riya
10 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Riddhish Bhalodia
10 Years ago
To do this correctly one must understand that is the initial velocity of the bullet is u, then the minimum momentum required to peirce the board is mu/20

so lets say n numuer of sheets later the speed is u/20 or smaller then next one would stop it
mu – nmu/20 < mu/20
n+1>20 thus
answer is 21