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Chapter 33, Problem 29P
SSM A small spaceship with a mass of only 1.5 × 103 kg (including an astronaut) is drifting in outer space with negligible gravitational forces acting on it. If the astronaut turns on a 10 kW laser beam, what speed will the ship attain in 1.0 day because of the momentum carried away by the beam?
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