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The Rocket Club is planning to launch a pair of model rockets. To build the rocket, the club needs a rocket body paired with an engine. The table lists the mass of three possible rocket bodies and the force generated by three possible engines.
A 4-column table with 3 rows. The first column labeled Body has entries 1, 2, 3. The second column labeled Mass (grams) has entries 500, 1500, 750. The third column labeled Engine has entries 1, 2, 3. The fourth column labeled Force (Newtons) has entries 25, 20, 30.
Based on Newton’s laws of motion, which combination of rocket bodies and engines will result in the acceleration of 40 m/s2 at the start of the launch?
Body 3 + Engine 1
Body 2 + Engine 2
Body 1 + Engine 2
Body 1 + Engine 1
Solution :
Given :
Body Mass (gram) Engine Force (newtons)
1 500 1 25
2 1500 2 20
3 750 3 30
The body 1 has a mass of 500 gram which is equal to 0.5 kg
And engine 2 has a force of 20 newtons.
We know that according to Newton's laws of motion,
Force = mass x acceleration
20 = 0.5 x acceleration
Acceleration
Therefore, based on laws of motion of Newton, the Body 1 + Engine 2 combination of the rocket bodies and engines will result in an acceleration of at the start of the launch.
To solve for force, you need to get the product of mass and acceleration.
F = ma
Your given is:
m = 150g
a = ?
v = 50 m/s
t = 20ms
As you can see, you do not have acceleration yet. But if you read the problem you can come up with the formula of acceleration.
Acceleration is the change in velocity over a period of time.
a = change in velocity/time
To get the change in velocity, you get the difference between the initial velocity and final velocity:
The ball was moving initially at a velocity of 50 m/s and it came to a stop. This is your clue. If a ball comes to a stop then that means that the final velocity of the ball is 0 m/s.
So we can put it into our formula now:
WAIT! As you can see, the units do not match. We have ms and s into our equation and that means you cannot proceed till they are the same. First we need to convert ms to s.
x 
= 
So your new time is 0.02s. Now we put this time into the formula:
As you can see our acceleration is a negative value, this indicates that it decelerated or slowed down which makes sense because it was brought to a stop.
So now we have our acceleration. Now using this, we can get our force.
Before we start doing this, you need to take note that the unit of force is N, but when you expand it, it is
but as you can see our mass given is in grams. So again, before you put them into the equation we need to change it into kg first.
Our new mass is 0.150kg.
To make things clearer, let us write down all our new values:
m = 0.150kg
a = -2,500
Now that all our units match, we can put that into our formula:
The value again is negative because it is going against the initial direction of the ball. But if your instructor just wants to get the value of force or the magnitude of the force, just disregard the sign.
F = ma
Your given is:
m = 150g
a = ?
v = 50 m/s
t = 20ms
As you can see, you do not have acceleration yet. But if you read the problem you can come up with the formula of acceleration.
Acceleration is the change in velocity over a period of time.
a = change in velocity/time
To get the change in velocity, you get the difference between the initial velocity and final velocity:
The ball was moving initially at a velocity of 50 m/s and it came to a stop. This is your clue. If a ball comes to a stop then that means that the final velocity of the ball is 0 m/s.
So we can put it into our formula now:
WAIT! As you can see, the units do not match. We have ms and s into our equation and that means you cannot proceed till they are the same. First we need to convert ms to s.
So your new time is 0.02s. Now we put this time into the formula:
As you can see our acceleration is a negative value, this indicates that it decelerated or slowed down which makes sense because it was brought to a stop.
So now we have our acceleration. Now using this, we can get our force.
Before we start doing this, you need to take note that the unit of force is N, but when you expand it, it is
Our new mass is 0.150kg.
To make things clearer, let us write down all our new values:
m = 0.150kg
a = -2,500
Now that all our units match, we can put that into our formula:
The value again is negative because it is going against the initial direction of the ball. But if your instructor just wants to get the value of force or the magnitude of the force, just disregard the sign.