Defiance Drake, Space Adventurer, desperately needs to reach a cargo vessel 100m away, or run out of air and die in deep space.
Defiance Drake, Space Adventurer, desperately needs to reach a cargo
vessel 100m away, or run out of air and die in deep space. For our
purposes, there are two relevant directions, the direction Defiance is
traveling in (the x-direction, at 1 m/s), and direction of the cargo
ship's motion, which is perpendicular to her motion (y-direction, 10
m/s). Defiance uses her jet boots, choosing to accelerate directly in
the x-direction at 0.25g (she starts at (x=100,y=0)). If the cargo
vessel is 25 m long, and its nose cone starts at x=0,y=0, will Defiance
reach the ship or miss? If she misses, how should she have chosen her
path (assume she cannot exceed 1 g)?
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