Question: ( b ) A small rocket, with a booster attached, blasts off and heads straight upward. At a height of 5 k m and velocity

(b) A small rocket, with a booster attached, blasts off and heads straight upward. At a
height of 5km and velocity of 200ms-1, it releases the booster. You may neglect
air resistance and assume the booster acts under the influence of acceleration due
to gravity. Take g=9.81ms-2.
(i) What is the maximum height the booster attains?
(ii) What is the velocity of the booster at a height of 6km? Explain the significance
of the sign of your answer.
(iii) Suppose that as the booster travels back down through the height of 6km its
rocket reignites for 1s imparting an additional upward acceleration a. Determine
the value of a above which the booster reverses its motion.
 (b) A small rocket, with a booster attached, blasts off and

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