COSMIC PERSPECTIVE
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Author: Bennett
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 1, Problem 51EAP
Faster Trip. Suppose you wanted to reach Alpha Centauri in 100 years.
a. How fast would you have to go, in km/hr? b. How many times faster is the speed you found in part a than the speed of our fastest current spacecraft (around 50,000 km/hr)?
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