Suppose you are an astronaut on a spacewalk, far from any source of gravity. You find yourself floating alongside your spacecraft but 10 m away, with no propulsion system to get back to it. In your tool belt you have a hammer, a wrench, and a roll of duct tape. How can you get back to your spacecraft?

a. Move like you are flying to the spaceship

b. Move like you are swimming to the spaceship

c. Throw the items away from the spaceship

d. Throw the items to the spaceship.

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Natalie Blevins

Physics

11 July, 07:19

Suppose you are an astronaut on a spacewalk, far from any source of gravity. You find yourself floating alongside your spacecraft but 10 m away, with no propulsion system to get back to it. In your tool belt you have a hammer, a wrench, and a roll of duct tape. How can you get back to your spacecraft?

a. Move like you are flying to the spaceship

b. Move like you are swimming to the spaceship

c. Throw the items away from the spaceship

d. Throw the items to the spaceship.

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Answers (2)

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Alan Davies · Answer 1

c. Throw the items away from the spaceship.

Explanation:

By the Principle of action and reaction yu can get back to your spacecraft throwing the items away from the spaceship.

Mireya Banks · Answer 2

c. Throw the items away from the spaceship

Explanation:

The propulsion that throwing items away from the spaceship will propel you to the opposite direction in which you are throwing the objects, this means that if you throw the items away from the spaceship you will be getting force of rpopulsion towards the spaceship.