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A rocket travels at 500m/s two minutes after its take-off. If it was initially stationary, calculate its acceleration. If the rocket has a mass of 1800kg, what force is required to give it an acceleration of 2m/s^2?

a) Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity of an object

In this case, the equation that we will use to calculate it is

a = (v - u )/ t

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What does it mean to differentiate a function?

A function represents a quantity. For example the function s = (6t² + 4t) m, could represent displacement. The unknown t is inputted to find the displacement an object travels at a certain t...

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What factors cause the aggregate demand curve to shift?

The equation for aggregate demand is defined as C+I+G+(X-M) where C is consumption by households on things such as cars, furniture and petrol, I is investment by firms in new technology, factories and inv...

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What is Pareto efficiency?

A situation, allocation or outcome is Pareto efficient if no one party can be made better off without another being made worse off. The outcome of a perfectly competitive market is Pareto efficient wherea...

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How do you differentiate x^x?

There are two ways we can find the derivative of x^x.

It's important to notice that this function is neither a power function of the form x^k nor an exponential function of the form b^x, so we...

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