zlittleton2008
zlittleton2008
04.11.2021 • 
Physics

Question 7: An astronaut is drifting away from the space shuttle at a velocity of 1.1 m/s.
Luckily he has his gun with him and he decides to fire his
gun's 30 g bullets as a means of returning to his ship. The mass of the astronaut
and his spacesuit is 123 kg, his gun has a mass of 12 kg and the bullets leave his
gun at 250 m/s.

b) What is the approximate minimum number of bullets that he will need to fire to begin drifting
back to the ship?

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