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Q.

A machine gun is mounted on a flat rail car. The gun is firing bullets at the rate of 10 bullets per second each of mass 10 g. The bullets come out with velocity 500 ms–1 from the rear. Calculate the acceleration of the car at the instant when its mass is 200 kg. Also calculate the force at that instant.

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a

0.25 m/sec2; 100 N

b

0.5 m/sec2; 50 N

c

0.25 m/sec2; 50 N

d

0.5 m/sec2; 100 N

answer is C.

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Detailed Solution

Here the reacting force F = velocity ×  mass of bullets fired per second.
∴F = 500 ×10*101000​=50 N
Acceleration, a=Fm​=50200=0.25 m/s2

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