If a rocket with a mass of 700kg vertically accelerates at a rate of 32ms2, how much power will the rocket have to exert to maintain its acceleration at 4 seconds?

1 Answer
Jan 29, 2017

P=6.3 KW

Explanation:

see

MASS=700 kg
Acceleration=32ms2

THEREFORE force exerted is ma=70032=1050N

Now

a=vut and we have U ,i.e initial velocity =0 as it started from rest and ofcourse every rockets before launching is at rest,lol.

so by this we can get v and t we are given 4 seconds

32=v4
v=6ms

therefore

E=FDisplacement
dividing both sides of the equation by t

Et=Fdisplacementt

And by definition power is energy per unit time and velocity is displacement per unit time.so applying these

p=Fv
P=10506 Watt

P=6300W
P=6.3KW