A machine gun fires a bullet of mass 40 g with a velocity 1200 m s –1 . The man holding it can exert a maximum force of 144 N on the gun. How many bullets can he fire per second at the most?
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F = mnv
144 = 40 × 10 –3 × n × 1200
n = 
= 3
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