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Calculate Thrust of Rocket: Homework Statement
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[QUOTE="hk4491, post: 4587415, member: 494572"] [h2]Homework Statement [/h2] [SIZE="3"]A rocket has an initial mass of m[SIZE="1"]0[/SIZE] = 30,000 Kg, from which 80% is fuel. The fuel is being burned at a rate of R = 200 kg/s and the gas is expelled with a velocity of v[SIZE="1"]rel[/SIZE] = 1.8 km/s. The velocity of the rocket is calculated by:[/SIZE] [SIZE="4"][B]v[/B] = [B]v[SIZE="1"]rel[/SIZE]* ln [itex]\frac{m0}{m0 - Rt}[/itex] - gt[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE="3"]Calculate: (a) The thrust of the rocket (b) The time until the rocket runs out of fuel (c) The velocity of the rocket when the rocket runs out of fuel, under the condition that the rocket is always traveling perpendicullarly, and the g is always constant. Air resistance is negligble. Hint: How does Newton's second law look like with a change of mass with respect to time? [/SIZE] [h2]Homework Equations[/h2] [SIZE="4"]F = m * a a = [itex]\frac{dv}{dt}[/itex] [itex]\frac{dm}{dt}[/itex] = m[SIZE="1"]0[/SIZE] - Rt[/SIZE] [h2]The Attempt at a Solution[/h2] After diffrentiating the given equation for velocity I got: [B][SIZE="4"] a = v[SIZE="1"]rel[/SIZE] [itex]\frac{R}{m0 - Rt}[/itex] - g[/SIZE][/B] and the mass relative to time is: [B][SIZE="4"]m(t) = m[SIZE="1"]0[/SIZE] - Rt[/SIZE][/B] from this I got: [B][SIZE="4"]F = ma = R - gm[SIZE="1"]0[/SIZE] + gRt[/SIZE][/B] [SIZE="3"]This is where I got stuck. The question doesn't seem to ask for the thrust at a specific moment in time, yet the equation for force I got at the end still takes time into account. Did I do something wrong during differentiation? [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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