(a) We know from experience that we cannot just pull ourselves at our feet away from the ground. Why is this not possible? b) This impossibility is why we made rockets to get away from the ground. In fact, rockets actually are an "exploit" of the same principle of why we cannot lift our own bodies away from the ground. Let us consider a rocket of mass M including its initial fuel, travelling at some velocity v. Across an infinitesimal time interval dt, the rocket ejects an amount dM of burning fuel, resulting in its mass to become M – dM after dt, while its velocity becomes v+dv. The ejected fuel will be travelling at some velocity u for a stationary observer. We will ignore gravity. What is the equation that expresses conservation of momentum of this scenario, in terms of the quantities specified above? (c) Consider v,r, the relative velocity of the rocket relative to the ejected fuel. What is u in terms of v, dv and v,?

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(a) We know from experience that we cannot just pull ourselves at our feet away from the ground. Why
is this not possible?
(b) This impossibility is why we made rockets to get away from the ground. In fact, rockets actually are
an "exploit" of the same principle of why we cannot lift our own bodies away from the ground.
Let us consider a rocket of mass M including its initial fuel, travelling at some velocity v. Across an
infinitesimal time interval dt, the rocket ejects an amount dM of burning fuel, resulting in its mass to
become M – dM after dt, while its velocity becomes v+ dv. The ejected fuel will be travelling at some
velocity u for a stationary observer. We will ignore gravity.
What is the equation that expresses conservation of momentum of this scenario, in terms of the
quantities specified above?
(c) Consider vr, the relative velocity of the rocket relative to the ejected fuel. What is u in terms of v, dv
and v,?
(d) Using your results in (b) and (c), what is
dv
the acceleration of the rocket?
dt
Transcribed Image Text:(a) We know from experience that we cannot just pull ourselves at our feet away from the ground. Why is this not possible? (b) This impossibility is why we made rockets to get away from the ground. In fact, rockets actually are an "exploit" of the same principle of why we cannot lift our own bodies away from the ground. Let us consider a rocket of mass M including its initial fuel, travelling at some velocity v. Across an infinitesimal time interval dt, the rocket ejects an amount dM of burning fuel, resulting in its mass to become M – dM after dt, while its velocity becomes v+ dv. The ejected fuel will be travelling at some velocity u for a stationary observer. We will ignore gravity. What is the equation that expresses conservation of momentum of this scenario, in terms of the quantities specified above? (c) Consider vr, the relative velocity of the rocket relative to the ejected fuel. What is u in terms of v, dv and v,? (d) Using your results in (b) and (c), what is dv the acceleration of the rocket? dt
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