Question: Alice tapes a small, 200 g model rocket to a 400 g ice hockey puck. The rocket generates 8.0 N of thrust. Alice orients the

Alice tapes a small, 200 g model rocket to a 400 g ice hockey puck. The rocket generates 8.0 N of thrust. Alice orients the puck so that the rocket's nose points in the positive y-direction, then pushes the puck across frictionless ice in the positive x-direction with a speed of 2.0 m/s. The rocket fires at the exact instant the puck crosses the origin. Find an equation y(x) for the puck's trajectory then graph it.

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