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(20 points) The year is 3077 and the event is rocket-car racing. Your race team needs some key cal ...
(20 points) The year is 3077 and the event is rocket-car racing. Your race team needs some key calculations from you, the team's physicist, in order to secure the 3077 Interstellar Rocket Cup. The liquid fuel is exhausted through a nozzle (see figure) and the speed of the exhausting fuel at the entrance to the nozzle (0.500m inner diameter) is 200m/s. The inner diameter of the nozzle at the smallest point is 0.050m. Treat the speed of the fuel at the smallest point of the nozzle as the exhaust speed. If it takes 15 seconds to eject the full 150kg tank of rocket fuel, what is the thrust, Fthrust ?, provided by the rocket engine on the car?