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A rocket engine provides 28,913 Newtons of thrust. The rocket has a mass of 2,350 kilograms. Calculate its acceleration if it mo

ves HORIZONTALLY (we don’t want to fight gravity yet) on some frictionless surface.
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Dafna11 [192]3 years ago

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1. The unknown is acceleration
2. The givens are the force(28,913N) and the mass(2350kg)
3. The equation is a=f/m where a is acceleration,f is force and m is mass
4.a=28913/2350 a=12.30340426
5. Therefore its acceleration is 12.30m/s²(rounded to nearest hundredth)

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