At a certain instant of time the mass of a rocket going up vertically is 100 kg. If it is ejecting 5 kg of gas per second at a speed of 400 m/s, the acceleration of the rocket would be (taking g=10 m/s 2 )
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The acceleration of a rocket is given by
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