You and your team are evaluating a new thruster that will be used to propel a 6.00

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You and your team are evaluating a new thruster that will be used to propel a 6.00 × 104 kg ship. The thruster has a power output of 2.88 × 106 W, calculated to initially accelerate the ship at 9.80 m/s2 (safe for humans).

(a) Assuming that all of the energy of the thruster is converted into kinetic energy of the ship, what is the velocity of the ship after 1 year?

(b) After 1000 years?

(c) Assuming the thruster converts mass directly into energy, how much mass would be converted into energy over the 1000- year trip?

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Physics

ISBN: 9781119539636

11th Edition

Authors: John D. Cutnell, Kenneth W. Johnson, David Young, Shane Stadler

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