It’s Not Rocket Science… Oh Wait, It Is!
Vector stuff
Acceleration
100

When a rocket is launched, this vector quantity increases as its speed increases in a specific direction.

  • Answer: What is velocity?
100

The horizontal component of a vector with a magnitude of 10 and an angle of 45°.


  • Answer: What is 7.07 units? (or 10 * cos(45°))
100

The 2nd Law of Newton

What is F = ma

400

A rocket is launched with an initial velocity of 50 m/s at an angle of 30° above the horizontal. Ignore air resistance.

What are the horizontal and vertical components of the rocket’s initial velocity?

What is Vx = 50 cos30

Vy = 50 sin30

400

If an object’s net force is zero, then its acceleration is.

  • Answer: What is zero?
500

A model rocket blasts off from the ground, rising straight upward with a constant acceleration that has a magnitude of 96.0 m/s2 for 1.60 seconds, at which point its fuel abruptly runs out. Air resistance has no effect on its flight. The maximum altitude (above the ground) that the rocket will reach?

What is:

vf=vi+at  vf= 153.6 ms-1

d=vi*t+.5*at^2 = 122.88 m

vf^2=vi^2+2ad = 1203.81

1203.81+122.88 = 1326.69

500

A 15 kg object accelerates at 2 m/s². This is the force acting on it.

Answer: What is 30 N?