Find the initial acceleration of a rocket if the astronauts onboard experience eight times their normal weight during an initialvertical ascent. (Hint
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Make a free body diagram of the astronaut being accelerated to start. You are subject to the forces of gravity and upward motion (down).
You are informed that the astronaut would suffer a force eight times his weight, which is equivalent to the sum of the upward and gravitational forces.
We solve:
Substitute Newton's law into our equation, we get:
, which reduces to
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