A rocket has a mass of 1500kg, including 1200 kg of fuel, which is consumed at the

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A rocket has a mass of 1500kg, including 1200 kg of fuel, which is consumed at the rate of 15kg/s. Knowing that the rocket is fired vertically from the ground and that its acceleration increases by 220m/s2 from the time it is fired to the time the last particle of fuel has been consumed, determine the relative velocity with which the fuel is being ejected.

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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073212227

8th Edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell

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