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Physics, 02.10.2020 14:01 brittanyjacob8

In his novel From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Jules Verne describes a spaceship that is blasted out of a cannon, called the Columbiad, with a speed of 12,000 yards>s. The Columbiad is 900 ft long, but part of it is packed with explosives, so the spaceship accelerates over a distance of only 700 ft. Estimate the acceleration experienced by the occupants of the spaceship during launch. Give your answer in m>s2

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