A bullet fired into a fixed target loses half of its velocity after penetrating … … How much further it will penetrate before coming to rest assuming that it faces constant resistance to motion?

Option C. Let … be the initial kinetic energy and … be the resistive force. Then according to work-energy theorem, …

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JEE Main 2005 · Annual, Paper 1 · Q8563

PhysicsMedium70×since 2002Q8563

A bullet fired into a fixed target loses half of its velocity after penetrating

3

cm.

How much further it will penetrate before coming to rest assuming that it faces constant resistance to motion?

JEE Main 2005 · Annual, Paper 1 · Q8563

PhysicsMedium70×since 2002Q8563

A bullet fired into a fixed target loses half of its velocity after penetrating

3

cm.

How much further it will penetrate before coming to rest assuming that it faces constant resistance to motion?