One hazard of space travel is the debris left by previous missions. There are several thousand objects orbiting Earth that are large enough to be detected by radar, but there are far greater numbers of very small objects, such as flakes of paint. Calculate the magnitude of the force, in newtons, exerted by a 0.085-mg chip of paint that strikes (and sticks to) a spacecraft window at a relative speed of 4.25 × 103 m/s, given the collision lasts 6.1 × 10– 8 s. F =

One hazard of space travel is the debris left by previous missions. There are several thousand objects orbiting Earth that are large enough to be detected by radar, but there are far greater numbers of very small objects, such as flakes of paint. Calculate the magnitude of the force, in newtons, exerted by a 0.085-mg chip of paint that strikes (and sticks to) a spacecraft window at a relative speed of 4.25 × 103 m/s, given the collision lasts 6.1 × 10– 8 s. F =