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A 10,000kg space shuttle moving east at 3000km/h wishes to change its course by 10°. It does so by ejecting an object at a speed of 5000km/h (South). Calculate the mass of the ejected object.
Equations
Momentum before = momentum after
momentum is mass x velocity
I am honesty pretty well completely stumped on how to solve this question. Would you draw a vector diagram? Usually you figure out the momentum before and then the momentum after must be equal. However I don't know how to do that because when the shuttle releaes the amount of weight, we no longer know its amount of weight or velocity.
Im so confused, please help
Equations
Momentum before = momentum after
momentum is mass x velocity
I am honesty pretty well completely stumped on how to solve this question. Would you draw a vector diagram? Usually you figure out the momentum before and then the momentum after must be equal. However I don't know how to do that because when the shuttle releaes the amount of weight, we no longer know its amount of weight or velocity.
Im so confused, please help