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Chapter 12, Problem 9CQ

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Problem 9CQ

One day in the future you may take a pleasure cruise to the Moon. While there you might climb a lunar mountain and throw a rock horizontally from its summit. If, in principle, you could throw the rock fast enough, it might end up hitting you in the back. Explain.

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Problem 9CQ

One day in the future you may take a pleasure cruise to the Moon. While there you might climb a lunar mountain and throw a rock horizontally from its summit. If, in principle, you could throw the rock fast enough, it might end up hitting you in the back. Explain.

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The objective here is to evaluate the possibility of a hypothetical situation in moon. The hypothetical possibility to be explored here is as follows: if a stone is thrown horizontally from the top of a mountain in moon, will it complete one orbit and come back to the initial position coordinate from where it was thrown.

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