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At a wild-west show, a marksman fires a bullet at a 12 g coin that's thrown...

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At a wild-west show, a marksman fires a bullet at a 12 g cointhat's thrown straight up into the air. The marksman points hisrifle at a 45 ∘ angle above the ground, then fires a 15 g bullet ata speed of 510 m/s. Just as the coin reaches its highest point, thebullet hits it and glances off, giving the coin an exactly verticalupward velocity of 100 m/s.

At what angle measured with respect to the horizontal does thebullet ricochet away from this collision?

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The given setup is like thisI will assume that the bullet hits the coin with a negligibletime elapsed to ignore the affect of gravity on thebulletTo make things simpler take a different frame of reference    See Answer
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