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Force from a stream of bullets or balls (momentum change per second)

This type of question, asked 5 times: 15 May 2023 S2, 14 May 2024 S2, 25 Apr 2025 S1, 13 Apr 2026 S2, 17 Apr 2026 S2. All 5 questions below, oldest first.

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  1. Question 1

    15 May 2023 S2

    21
    1000 small balls, each weighing 1 gram, strike one square cm of area per second with a velocity 50 m/s in a normal direction and rebound with the same velocity. The value of pressure on the surface will be

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  2. Question 2

    14 May 2024 S2

    39
    A machine gun fires bullets of mass 30 g with velocity 1000 m/s. The man can exert a maximum force of 300 N. How many bullets can he fire per second at most?

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  3. Question 3

    25 Apr 2025 S1

    19
    A machine gun fires a bullet of mass 35 gram with a speed of 600 m/s600\,m/s. The person holding the gun can exert a maximum force of 147 N on it. The number of bullets that can be fired from the gun per second is

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  4. Question 4

    13 Apr 2026 S2

    105
    100100 balls each of mass mm moving with speed vv simultaneously strike a wall normally and reflected back with same speed, in time tt s. The total magnitude of force exerted by the balls on the wall is

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  5. Question 5

    17 Apr 2026 S2

    104
    A machine gun fires a bullet of mass 40g with a speed of 600 ms−1600\ \mathrm{ms^{-1}}. The person holding the gun can bare maximum force of 168N on it. The number of bullets that can be fired from the gun per second is

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