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Troyanec [42]
3 years ago
14

In his novel From the Earth to the Moon (1866), Jules Verne describes a spaceship that is blasted out of 12,000 yards/s. the Col

umbiad is 900 ft long, but part of it is packed with poweder, so the spaceship accelerates over a distance of only 700 ft. Estimate the acceleration experienced by the occupants of the spaceship during launch. Give your answer in m/s2. (Verne realized that the "travelers would...encounter a violent recoil," but he probably didn't know that people generally lose consciousness if they experience accelerations greater than about 7g ~70 m/s2.)
Physics
1 answer:
saw5 [17]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

The acceleration experienced by the occupants of the spaceship during launch is 282652.782 meters per square second.

Explanation:

Let suppose that spaceship is accelerated uniformly. A yard equals 0.914 meters. A feet equals 0.304 meters. If air viscosity and friction can be neglected, then acceleration (a), measured in meters per square second, is estimated by this kinematic formula:

a = \frac{v^{2}-v_{o}^{2}}{2\cdot \Delta s } (1)

Where:

\Delta s - Travelled distance, measured in meters.

v_{o}, v - Initial and final speeds of the spaceship, measured in meters.

If we know that v_{o} = 0\,\frac{m}{s}, v = 10968\,\frac{m}{s} and \Delta s = 212.8\,m, then the acceleration experimented by the spaceship is:

a = \frac{\left(10968\,\frac{m}{s} \right)^{2}-\left(0\,\frac{m}{s} \right)^{2}}{2\cdot (212.8\,m)}

a = 282652.782\,\frac{m}{s^{2}}

The acceleration experienced by the occupants of the spaceship during launch is 282652.782 meters per square second.

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