Rockets and avalanches. Moving bodies with variable mass
Description
In this program, footage of rockets blasting off and avalanches roaring down mountainsides provides two perspectives of the same principle: the rate of change of momentum. Practical calculations of the time it takes for a rocket to lift off and the time a skier has to escape a landslide, plus an experiment with eggs and flour, reinforce the lesson.
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42 min
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Date of Publication
[2006], c1999
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