Ship Adrift: 500 m from Reef, Can It Escape?

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An oil tanker with a broken engine is drifting towards a reef at 1.5 m/s, positioned 500 meters away. The wind stops just as the engineer manages to restart the engines, but the rudder remains stuck. The only option is to accelerate backward to escape the reef. Given the mass of the tanker and the net horizontal force from the engines, it is determined that the tanker can successfully avoid the reef. The conclusion is that the tanker can escape in this scenario.
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An oil tanker's engines have broken down, and the wind is blowing the tanker straight toward a reef at a constant speed of 1.5 m/s . When the tanker is 500 m from the reef, the wind dies down just as the engineer gets the engines going again. The rudder is stuck, so the only choice is to try to accelerate straight backward away from the reef. The mass of the tanker and cargo is , and the engines produce a net horizontal force of on the tanker.
 
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