Rocket engines work by expelling gas at a high speed as illustrated in Figure P7.71. We wish

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Rocket engines work by expelling gas at a high speed as illustrated in Figure P7.71. We wish to design an engine that expels an amount of gas mg= 50 kg each second, and we want the engine to exert a force F = 20,000 N on a rocket. At what speed vgshould the gas be expelled? Assume the mass of the rocket is very large.

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