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When run at maximum power output, the motor in a self-propelled tank car can accelerate the full car (mass kg) along a horizontal track at m/s . The tank is full at time zero, but the contents pour out of a hole in the bottom at rate kg/s thereafter. If the car is at rest at time zero and full forward power is turned on at that time , how fast will it be moving at any time before the tank is empty?
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1 of 3Let be the speed of the tank car at time seconds. The mass of the car at time is . At full power, the force applied to the car is (since the motor can accelerate the full car at m/). By Newton's Law, this force is the rate of change of the momentum of the car. Thus
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