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    How Long Must the Rocket Fire to Accelerate the Space Platform?

    Thank you for such a kind answer! I was nervous to post since this was my first post. By the way the other method that Tiny Tim was referring to was the definition of Force that Newton originally identified. Force = change in momentum over change in time. So Force can also be looked at as the...
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    How Long Must the Rocket Fire to Accelerate the Space Platform?

    Even though I believe that tiny-tim's method would solve your problem quicker it seems that you haven't learned that way of looking at Force yet (which ironically enough is actually how Newton originally came up with the second law). The other method involves just using Newton's Second Law of...