Example Variation Problem 27.32 4 of 8 Revie Proposals to mine resources from the Moon have...
Proposals to mine resources from the Moon have included
suggestions that the goods could be launched toward Earth using an
electromagnetic railgun, also called a mass
driver, which is essentially an apparatus like that described
in (Figure 1), with a cargo capsule incorporated into the
conducting bar. With rails spaced 1.00 m apart and a magnetic field
of 0.807 T, what emf would be needed to achieve a speed that's 60 %
greater than lunar escape speed? The lunar escape...