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(Solved): I don't understand this can someone explain? thank you 43. Two identical spaceships are moving throu ...
I don't understand this can someone explain? thank you
43. Two identical spaceships are moving through space both with speed v0?. Both spaceships experience a net force of magnitude F0? over the same time interval. For spaceship 1 , the net force acts in the same direction as the spaceship is moving; for spaceship 2 , the net force is directed opposite to the spaceship's motion, causing spaceship 2 to slow down but not stop. For which spaceship, if either, does the kinetic energy change by a greater magnitude, and why? (A) Spaceship 1 will have a greater change in kinetic energy because the distance traveled is greater than that of spaceship 2. (B) Spaceship 2 will have a greater change in kinetic energy because the force slows down the spaceship. (C) Spaceship 1 and 2 have the same change in kinetic energy because the time and the force are the same. (D) Spaceship 1 and 2 have the same change in kinetic energy because the net work done on each has the same magnitude.