NASA's Skylab, the largest spacecraft ever to fall back to the Earth, reentered the Earth's atmosphere on

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NASA's Skylab, the largest spacecraft ever to fall back to the Earth, reentered the Earth's atmosphere on July 11, 1979, and broke into a myriad of pieces. One of the largest fragments was a 1770-kg, lead-lined film vault, which landed with an estimated speed of 120 m/s. If its speed at an altitude of 148 km was 7950 m/s, how much nonconservative work was done on the film vault during reentry?

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Physics

ISBN: 978-0321976444

5th edition

Authors: James S. Walker

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