An unfortunate astronaut loses his grip during a spacewalk and finds himself floating away from the space station, carrying only a rope and a bag of tools. First he tries to throw a rope to his fellow astronaut, but the rope is too short. In a last ditch effort, the astronaut throws his bag of tools in the direction of his motion, away from the space station. The astronaut has a mass of ma=102 kgma=102 kg and the bag of tools has a mass of mb=10.0 kg. mb=10.0 kg. If the astronaut is moving away from the space station at vi=2.10 m/svi=2.10 m/s initially, what is the minimum final speed vb, fvb, f of the bag of tools with respect to the space station that will keep the astronaut from drifting away forever?

The answer is ""

Explanation:

momentum before:

momentum After:

Calculating the conservation of momentum:

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explanation:

force is based upon mass and acceleration.the statement is not always true.

it can be explained from newton's second law of motion.

as per newton's second law of motion the rate of change of momentum is directly proportional to the applied force and takes place along the direction of force.

mathematically it can be written as -

                                              ⇒      

here   k is the proportionality constant whose value is 1.

                                                            [a is the acceleration=dv/dt]

hence we see that force not only depends on mass and acceleration but also on velocity and rate of change of mass. force f will depend on mass and acceleration only when mass is constant.

hence the statement that force is based upon mass and acceleration is false.