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Skills for solving impulse-momentum problems A cannon mounted on the back o...

Skills for solving impulse-momentum problems

A cannon mounted on the back of a ship fires a 50-kg cannonball in the horizontal direction at a speed of 150 m/s. If the cannon and ship have a combined mass of 40000 kg and are initially at rest, what is the speed of the ship just after shooting the cannon? What assumptions did you make?

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