Question: 1 2 . ( 1 6 points ) The cruel crew of the Tom Osborne has marooned you on the small, isolated, boring, desolate, completely

12.(16 points) The cruel crew of the Tom Osborne has marooned you on the small, isolated, boring, desolate, completely useless chunk of rock called Awoi. Awoi is a sphere 500 m in radius and has a mean density of 2.3 g cm3. You have managed to acquire a sphere, with an albedo of 0.6, radius of 1.5 cm, and a mass of 32.0 g, that contains the technical readout of the Osbornes unmatched offensive and defensive capabilities, and you hurl it at an initial velocity of 22 m s1 in the general direction of Star Fleet command; you also give the sphere a rotation period of 0.06 s. What will be the final velocity of the sphere?
Shortly after sending the sphere on its way, you remember that you have hidden an Osborne blaster in your suit. This laser-like device is powered by a radioactive decay process whose half-life is 15.6 years. By firing the blaster at the sphere (on stun, of course), you use the radiation pressure in the beam to accelerate the sphere. The power of the beam is proportional to the number of atoms decaying per unit time; when the blaster is first fired (15 minutes after throwing the sphere) the power is 6.51012 erg s1. The wavelength of the radiation is exactly 6564.6563A. The beam of the blaster does not diverge (i.e., does not spread out with distance), and assume that all reflected photons are sent back in the direction of the blaster.
What is the maximum speed that the sphere acquires? What is the temperature of the sphere after one year? (Ignore Doppler/relativistic effects.)

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