A spaceship is launched radially away from the earth with the help of a rocket. When the spaceship acquires speed
the rocket used is switched off. As the spaceship proceeds further away from the earth, its speed
decreases with time
as shown in the graph and eventually the spaceship acquires a constant velocity that is one fifth of
How far away from the centre of the earth, was the rocket switched off?
Answer comes in the form of
Find
Note:
1)
The graph wants to show that when the rocket is switched off from that instant
is considered .
2)
See the graph carefully, it also wants to show that the spaceship reached its terminal velocity at time
.
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