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A spacecraft is in free fall toward the surface of the moon at a speed of 1000 mph (mi/h)....

A spacecraft is in free fall toward the surface of the moon at a speed of 1000 mph (mi/h). Its retrorockets, when fired, provide a constant deceleration of 20,000 mi/h2. At what height above the lunar surface should the astronauts fire the retrorockets to insure a soft touchdown? (As in Example 2, ignore the moon’s gravitational field.)

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Solutions For Problems in Chapter 1.2