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Transcribed Image Text:A rocket for use in deep space is to be capable of boosting a total load (payload plus the rocket frame and engine) of 2.95 metric tons to a speed of 10,000 m/s.
(a) It has an engine and fuel designed to produce an exhaust speed of 2800 m/s. How much fuel plus oxidizer is required?
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(b) If a different fuel and engine design could give an exhaust speed of 8400 m/s, what amount of fuel and oxidizer would be required for the same task?
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(c) Noting that the exhaust speed in part (b) is 3.00 times higher than that in part (a), explain why the required fuel mass is not simply smaller by a factor of 3.00.
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