4 88 A cannon of mass m starts sliding freely down a smooth

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4 88 A cannon of mass m starts sliding freely down a smooth inclined plane at an angle a to the horizontal After the cannon covered the distance I a shot was fired the shell leaving the cannon in the horizontal direction with a momentum P As a consequence the cannon is stopped Assuming the mass of the shell to be negligible determine the duration of the shot