The captain of a spaceship spots an asteroid moving towards


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Question: The captain of a spaceship spots an asteroid moving towards her ship as shown below. She immediately engages the rear thrusters giving the ship an acceleration of 20.0 m/s2, in a direction opposite to the ships velocity. Unfortunately, a collision happens.

Part I: Find the location of the collision and the velocity of the spaceship at the time of collision. Assume that the asteroid travels with constant velocity.

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