"From the earth to the moon". In Jules Verne’s 1865 story with this title, three men went to the moon in a shell fired from a gi
ant cannon sunk in the earth in Florida.
(a) Find the minimum muzzle speed needed to shoot a shell straight up to an altitude equal to the 2 times earth’s radius RE.
(b) Find the minimum muzzle speed that would allow a shell to reach the height of the moon, 385,000 km, center of the earth to center of the moon
(a) Find the minimum muzzle speed needed to shoot a shell straight up to an altitude equal to the 2 times earth’s radius RE.
(b) Find the minimum muzzle speed that would allow a shell to reach the height of the moon, 385,000 km, center of the earth to center of the moon
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