Suppose you are navigating a spacecraft far from other objects. The mass of the spacecraft is 2.3 x 104 kg (about 23 to...
Suppose you are navigating a spacecraft far from other objects. The mass of the spacecraft is 3.2 × 104 kg (about 32 tons). The rocket engines are shut off, and you're coasting along with a constant velocity of <0, 20, 0> km/s. As you pass the location <4, 2, 0> km you briefly fire side thruster rockets, so that your spacecraft experiences a net force of <9 × 105, 0, 0> N for 20.0 s. The ejected gases have a...
.P20 Suppose that you are navigating a spacecraft far from other objects. The mass of the spacecraft is 1.5 x 10 kg (about 150 tons). The rocket engines are shut off, and you're coasting along with a constant velocity of (0,20,0) km/s. As you pass the location (12,15,0) km you briefly fire side-thruster rockets, so that your spacecraft experiences a net force of (6 x 10,0,0) N for 20 s. After turning off the thrusters, you then continue coasting with...