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Grade 9Mechanics

a toy rocket has a total mass of 0.1 kg including fuel and fuel’s mass is 0.02 kg which burns in 3 seconds. starting from rest on horizontal smooth track the rocket gets a velocity of 20 after the fuel is burned out. find the thrust on rocket

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10 Years agoGrade 9
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Profile image of Prsahant Parashar
10 Years ago
N=M(g+a)....(1)
we can calculate a from 
v=u+at
as is starts from rest u=0 , t=3 and v=20 given
a=6.666
putting thid value in eq (1) along with m=0.1 kg we get
N=1.646 newton