Please, I need some assistance as to how they got their answer? It has been suggested, and notfacetiously, that life might have originated on Mars and been car-ried to the earth when a meteor hit Mars and blasted pieces of rock(perhaps containing primitive life) free of the surface. Astronomersknow that many Martian rocks have come to the earth this way.(For information on one of these, search the Internet for “ALH84001.") One objection to this idea is that microbes would have toundergo an enormous lethal acceleration during the impact. Let usinvestigate how large such an acceleration might be. To escapeMars, rock fragments would have to reach its escape velocity of5.0 km/s, and this would most likely happen over a distance ofabout 4.0 m during the meteor impact. (a) What would be theacceleration (in m/s² and g's) of such a rock fragment, if the accel-eration is constant? (b) How long would this acceleration last?[(a) 3.1x10^6 m/s^2; (b) 1.6 ms]

Given data: Initial velocity (Vi) = 0 m/s Escape or Final velocity Vf = 5.0 km/s = 5000 m/s…

Mars, rock fragments would have to reach its escape velocity of 5.0 km/s, and this would most likely happen over a distance of about 4.0 m during the meteor impact. (a) What would be the acceleration (in m/s² and g's) of such a rock fragment, if the accel- eration is constant? (b) How long would this acceleration last?

Mars, rock fragments would have to reach its escape velocity of 5.0 km/s, and this would most likely happen over a distance of about 4.0 m during the meteor impact. (a) What would be the acceleration (in m/s² and g's) of such a rock fragment, if the accel- eration is constant? (b) How long would this acceleration last?

College Physics

11th Edition

ISBN:9781305952300

Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Publisher:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

Section: Chapter Questions

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