ACTION - REACTION PREFLIGHT
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1.

Consider a hand holding a ball at rest. The ball weighs 10 N. The forces acting on the ball are the weight of the ball and the force of the hand on the ball. The forces acting on the hand are the weight of the hand and the force exerted by the ball on the hand.
A) How big is the reaction force associated with the weight of the ball? What object is responsible for that force?
B) How big is the force the ball exerts on the hand? How big is the reaction force associated with that force?

Now let the hand exert a 15 N force on the ball.
C) How big is the reaction force associated with the weight of the ball? What object is responsible for that force?
D) How big is the force the ball exerts on the hand? How big is the reaction force associated with that force?



2.

Suppose the astronaut working on the Hubble telescope got himself completely loose of the shuttle and threw away a 2 kg hammer at 2 m/s. Could the astronaut remain at rest? If not, how fast would he be moving? How could he stop himself from drifting away?



3.

A 500 g piece of clay hits a stone at 80 m/s and sticks to it. The clay momentum must change by

80 Ns

- 40 Ns

40 Ns

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honors extra

The space shuttle assembly on the launch pad has a mass of about 2 million kg. The exhaust velocity of the propellant gases is about 4000 m/s. The gases are streaming out of the nozzles at the rate of about 18,000 kg/s. Given this information, estimate the acceleration of the space shuttle assembly.




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