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Description: An astronaut is floating in space 100 m from her ship when her safety cable becomes unlatched. She and the ship are motionless relative to each other. The astronaut's mass (including space suit) is 100 kg; she has a 1.0 kg wrench and only a 20 minut

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An astronaut is floating in space 100 m from her ship when her safety cable becomes unlatched. She and the ship are motionless relative to each other. The astronaut's mass (including space suit) is 100 kg; she has a 1.0 kg wrench and only a 20 minute air supply. She devises a plan to use conservation of momentum to get back to the ship safely by throwing the wrench away from her.

If the astronaut has only a 10-minute air supply left, how fast must she throw the wrench so that she makes it back to the spaceship in time?

Before
After
100 m-
Vafx
MA
100 kg
mw-1.0 kg
?
System astronaut
+ wrench
Wifix
- 10.0 m/s
>X
>X

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