Question: 3) A spacecraft on its way to Mars has small rocket engines mounted on its hull; one on its left surface and one on its

3) A spacecraft on its way to Mars has small rocket engines mounted on its hull; one on its left surface and one on its back surface. At a certain time, both engines turn on. The one on the left gives the spacecraft an acceleration component in thex direction ofax = 5.10 m/s2, while the one on the back gives an acceleration component in they direction ofay = 7.30 m/s2. The engines turn off after firing for640 s, at which point the spacecraft has velocity components ofvx =3665 m/s andvy =4116 m/s. What was the magnitude and the direction of the spacecraft's initial velocity before the engines were turned on? Express the magnitude as m/s and the direction as an angle measured counterclockwise from the +x axis.

magnitude= m/s

direction= counterclockwise from the +x-axis

5) You are walking around your neighborhood and you see a child on top of a roof of a building kick a soccer ball. The soccer ball is kicked at45 from the edge of the building with an initial velocity of13 m/s and lands71 meters away from the wall. How tall, in meters, is the building that the child is standing on?

7) A spaceship is traveling through deep space towards a space station and needs to make a course correction to go around a nebula. The captain orders the ship to travel1.1 106 kilometers before turning 70 and traveling2.7 106 kilometers before assuming the path towards the space station. If the captain had not ordered a course correction, what would have been the magnitude (in kilometers) and direction (in degrees counterclockwise from the +x-axis) of the path of the spaceship if it had traveled through the nebula?

magnitude= 3.2451e6 km

What is the angle of direction?

8) Two position vectors lie in a plane. The first, vectorrA, points at an angle of 20 below the positivex-axis and has a magnitude of59.5 m. The second, vectorrB, points at an angle of55.0 above the positivex-axis and has a magnitude of 75 m.

  1. What would this diagram look like?
  2. What is the magnitude, in meters, and what is the direction of vectorrC, in degrees? Give the direction as an angle measured counterclockwise from the positivex-axis.

magnitude=

direction= (counterclockwise from the +x-axis)

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