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Today's jaw dropper



Here's a gem from the "How to mess with student's minds" file:

Chapter 4, Problem 19 in Serway's, 4th Edition asks students to calculate
the muzzle velocity and time of flight for a bullet which is fired
horizontally by an astronaut standing on the Moon and which is then to
"travel completely around the Moon and reach the astronaut at a point 10.0
cm below its initial height."

Making the assumptions that this problem seems to call for, I get

time of flight = 0.35 s
muzzle velocity = 0.10 c

Who knew that the Moon was so nearly a black hole?

John
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