Question

Below is a challenging physics problem and a map of its solution. However, the solution contains an error. Find which step contains the error and identify what part of the problem statement indicates that the step contains an error. Indicate your choices by dragging objects to fill in the bottom sentence 0 Point B Earth reference point rocket fires spaceship of mass m is known to be traveling around the earth with speed in a circular orbit of radius rpassing through point A. The spaceship rockets fire tangentially to the circular orbit, doing work Wboost on the ship, in order to the spaceship into a new elliptic orbit. At point B in the ship's new orbit it has speed vB and is a distance rB from the EarthThe angular momentum reference point is the Earth's center. Find B and rB Taking the earth and spaceship as our system Einal Einitial WNC/extemal LB. orbital +LB. spLA, orbital +LA, spin Wboost 9 KB+UB, ship-earth KA+UA, ship-earth BmB negligible rmu negligible GMEm GMEm TB my2 Step is wrong, because: ResetHelp

Answer 1

Since an impulse is applied tangentially on rocked by doing Work W_boost on the ship. So angular momentum can not be conserved Therefore step (1) is wrong, ie, L_B notequalto L_A Thus correct answer is step (1) is wrong because the spaceship rocket fire tangentially to the circular orbit doing work w_boost on the ship, in order to boost the spaceship into a new orbit. Step (1) is wrong because fire tangentially