Q.

An artillery piece of mass M1 fires a shell of mass M2 horizontally. Instantaneously after the firing, the ratio of kinetic energy of the artillery and that of the shell is                  [2024]

1 M1M1+M2  
2 M2M1+M2  
3 M1M2  
4 M2M1  

Ans.

(4)   

           |p1|=|p2|

           KE=p22M KE1m

          KE1KE2=p2/2M1p2/2M2=M2M1